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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: TimF who wrote (6614)12/12/2005 9:32:11 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 542201
 
Taking money (or perhaps other things) by force or threat of force is a very mainstream definition for extortion.

I haven't been able to get my head around your use of "extortion" in this discussion. It's just too weird. Maybe the above explains it.

Taking money by force or threat of force is commonly called robbery or larceny or theft, not extortion. If you were to switch from "extortion" to "robbery," your position would make more sense, at least to me.

I went to the dictionary. Extortion does mean what you say it means. I have always thought of extortion as closer to blackmail, a specific type of theft. Maybe it's just me and maybe most people understand extortion and robbery to be the same thing but I doubt it. In any event, your use of "extortion," which I think of as blackmail, was why I argued the point with you. No way I can't find blackmail in taxation. Theft, OTOH, would make sense to me.
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