Val Venis didn’t just complain about paying taxes — he went scorched earth on the entire concept. The former WWE star says taxation is so fundamentally wrong that he considers it a “crime against humanity,” and he spent a huge chunk of a recent conversation explaining exactly how he got there.
Venis unloaded during a Twitter Spaces conversation on his own X account, where a wrestling chat took a hard turn into government, courts, taxation and his belief that people are being forced to surrender money without ever personally agreeing to the system. His argument got deep into his own interpretation of due process, but Venis eventually cut through all of that legal talk and delivered the line that pretty much summed up exactly how furious he is about taxes.
“And it’s that presumption, I believe, is not enough to deprive the people of their property. In other words, tax people’s checks, tax people’s profits, tax people’s inheritance. Tax, tax, tax, tax. These are deprivation of people’s property. And it’s done so based on the idea that we are all presumed obligated to obey. It’s never been proven, you know, when. When judges will say it’s settled law. There’s lots of historical cases, people have challenged this all the time. Not one single person in American history has gone such. Down such a narrow lane, down a path to define the fact that government is making two claims. When they walk into that courtroom, they’re not just making the claim that you violated tax laws. They’re also making the claim you’re obligated to obey those tax laws. And when the court refuses to hold the government to their burden of proof proving the claim that they’re obligated to obey, and just adopts it as background settled law, that we got to understand that settled law is not settled on a proven obligation to obey. It is settled law based on a presumption of an obligation to obey. And they’re depriving you. Yet. What does the Constitution say about depriving people of their life, liberty, or property? It says without due process of law. Now, when it says without due process of law, it’s clear that that means valid law. It’s not without due process process of presumed law. It is without due process of law. We shall not be deprived of life, liberty, or property. So if they’re only going so far as to presume that we are obligated to obey tax laws because they cannot prove it to me, every time they take one penny from your check, they’ve committed a crime against you. And because this is on a mass scale, it’s the entire nation of working people, people engaged in economic activities, that are being deprived of their value. That is a crime against humanity. Am I right or am I wrong.”
Venis kept hammering the subject later in the Spaces after asking another participant where they stood on taxation. When that person suggested people might be more accepting of voluntarily funding things in their communities, Venis came roaring right back to the issue of force. And this time he made his position even more blunt.
“No, you’re right. They don’t think that way. It’s just so easy to set it and forget it. Right. You drop your vote in the ballot box and then you forget it and just let them do whatever. And, you know, we get our roads. I mean, it’s, it’s nice to drive on the roads. It ain’t so nice with the potholes in them, but at least we get to drive on our roads. But it’s one of those things. Where do we accept force to compel people to pay and obey from cradle to grave? Is that the best, most freest way for society to live in liberty is to have them enslaved to this tax system that can literally take every single thing away from them if they don’t pay? And to me, that’s. It’s just not right. I think the. Once you get into human beings in government setting up extortion rackets, it’s. To me, the crime has been committed. The second they set up a taxing agency, it’s a crime against humanity. And, you know, regardless of what the purpose is.”
Yeah, Venis isn’t leaving much wiggle room here. This isn’t somebody arguing that his tax bill should be a little lower — he’s rejecting the entire forced-taxation system and comparing it to an extortion racket. Love the argument or think he’s completely off the rails, nobody walked away from that Spaces wondering how Val Venis feels about taxes. He made damn sure of that.
Do you think Val Venis took his taxation argument way too far, or do you understand the point he’s trying to make about government force? Drop your take in the comments.
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