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Blame the taxes for that. They should keep helping people avoid taxes as this is the right thing to do. Tax is unethical by its very nature (it is theft, regar

by henvic 10y ago

Blame the taxes for that. They should keep helping people avoid taxes as this is the right thing to do. Tax is unethical by its very nature (it is theft, regardless of justifications). That said, they could very well facilitate a tax-free art gallery environment trying to build mecas of fine art galleries.

brador 10y ago
Tax keeps your property protected. Don't like tax then you lose the military and police protection for your right to property. No one survives long under natural law.
dang 10y ago
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11795373 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11795373 and marked it off-topic.
- golergka 10y ago
  You may disagree with this comment, but how is that off-topic?
  - dang 10y ago
    Taxation-is-theft is the quintessence of the generic ideological tangent. Those are off topic on HN.
    - golergka 10y ago
      Really? Because I see debates about taxation and politics in general all the time in the comments - especially when these themes are directly related to the posts. Seriously, how can you say that comments about taxation are off-topic while this article is not off-topic and is currently on the front page? You can't really have a conversation about poverty, welfare and related policies without talking about taxation, and it's a weird moderatorial distinction.
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return0 10y ago
This is going off topic, so , to bring it back to subject: What about the fact that most of these artifacts have shady past? Many are the results of stealing, looting, illegal excavations , and for the most part even the recent artists received very little in compensation. Since you are aiming for the right thing to do, how do you justify the ownership of a roman sarcophagus in the first place?
yoo1I 10y ago
> Tax is unethical by its very nature (it is theft, regardless of justifications). This is incorrect. Taxation is neither unethical, nor "theft".

by henvic 10y ago

brador 10y ago

Tax keeps your property protected. Don't like tax then you lose the military and police protection for your right to property. No one survives long under natural law.

dang 10y ago

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11795373 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11795373 and marked it off-topic.

golergka 10y ago
You may disagree with this comment, but how is that off-topic?
- dang 10y ago
  Taxation-is-theft is the quintessence of the generic ideological tangent. Those are off topic on HN.
  - golergka 10y ago
    Really? Because I see debates about taxation and politics in general all the time in the comments - especially when these themes are directly related to the posts. Seriously, how can you say that comments about taxation are off-topic while this article is not off-topic and is currently on the front page? You can't really have a conversation about poverty, welfare and related policies without talking about taxation, and it's a weird moderatorial distinction.
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return0 10y ago

This is going off topic, so , to bring it back to subject: What about the fact that most of these artifacts have shady past? Many are the results of stealing, looting, illegal excavations , and for the most part even the recent artists received very little in compensation. Since you are aiming for the right thing to do, how do you justify the ownership of a roman sarcophagus in the first place?

yoo1I 10y ago

> Tax is unethical by its very nature (it is theft, regardless of justifications). This is incorrect. Taxation is neither unethical, nor "theft".