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But why acknowledge such a stupid claim? Receiving a net tax subsidy only constitutes aggression if you have substantial control over the extraction of taxes in the first place. Some people who receive net tax subsidies (executives of large agribusiness operations, some government employees, etc.) do have some control and so can be blamed. Others (non-citizens, for one) have very little control over it.

The aggression is taxation, not the receiving of a net subsidy. Do you think it would be better if everyone were a net taxpayer?

bolton: “The libertarian does not own the border.”

I have no idea what this means. Nobody “owns the border”, because the border is a line with no width, not a plot of property. If you mean that no libertarian owns any property that sits along a point of entry to the United States, I have no idea why you think this. There are plenty of libertarians, e.g., who live along the coast or in Southern California. I’d be glad to buy a strip of land along the border myself for the sole purpose of letting immigrants pass safely into the country: I’d be doing a humanitarian service, and making a mint in the process. But of course you don’t think I should be able to do that. If you did, you would just support enforcing trespassing law, not blanket immigration restrictions. So quit pretending like you care about property rights: the only property rights you care about is the right to do something that furthers your own policy goals.