How are we taxed; let me count some of the ways. 1. By confiscation, e.g. payroll, sales and property taxes. 2. By printing, or electrinically conjuring up, money and therefore devaluing all other money. 3. By borrowing money against our future earnings to be paid back with interest. 4. By mandating how what is not taxed is spent. 5. By regulation, prohibition, and mandate compliance. Most people only think of confiscatory taxation when they think of taxes at all; however, confiscatory taxes are the least destructive, and the least expensive, way in which we are taxed.