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And that's hyperbole.


Hyperbole is "speaking or writing that makes someone or something sound bigger, better, more, etc. than they are". https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hyperbol...

IRS can lien assets, sieze assets, and imprison people. IRS is hiring armed employees. https://www.jobs.irs.gov/resources/job-descriptions/irs-crim...


Let me guess, you think forcing children to have an education is also slavery.


Being forced into paying the federal government a portion of wages because a person happened to be born within the federal government land mass is taking the fruits of a person's work. Slaves are born into the slave owner's plantation. Don't pay and be punished by the slave master.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/slave...

Going to school, at no charge to student with free lunch, is probably preferrable to working in the mines or factory at age ten. If you are concerned about government-run education, you can home school your children.


You're not forced to work. Go to any big city, you'll see plenty of people who don't. You can just leech off everyone else's taxes, plenty of people do.




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