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Two wrongs don't make a right. No one should go to prison for refusing to hand over a share of the currency that they earned in a private trade. There is so mu
by aminok 10y ago
Two wrongs don't make a right. No one should go to prison for refusing to hand over a share of the currency that they earned in a private trade.
There is so much admiration for the covert mass surveillance that Edward Snowden uncovered and exposed to the world yet we seem to not blink an eye at the blatant and overt mass surveillance of private financial transactions - where we are legally required to totally surrender our financial privacy to the government - that has to be imposed on people so that there can even be an income tax.
Refusing to hand over your private income is totally incomparable to fraud. I honestly have trouble understanding how people can make these kinds of arguments.
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoSo we should completely abolish taxes, then? I assume this is one of those plans where we privatize all government services and the free market makes everything perfectly efficient and utopic, except for the people who can't afford to pay their police bill?
- aminok 10y agoWe should only allow the government to raise revenue from a split-rate property tax and user fees for government services used. Non-payment of the former should only be punishable by land expropriation, and not imprisonment.
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoSo it's the "police bill" thing, then?
- aminok 10y agoUser fees would be for things like use of roads. Services like policing would be paid out of revenue collected by a split rate property tax.