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It's not taxes I object to. I think taxing income is much better than taxing property. I believe that we should have a right to our own property - I don't belie

• twblalock 10y ago
  In what way is taxing income any more fair or just? After all, our income belongs to us just as our property does. It seems odd to object to one but not the other on this basis.
• gumby 10y ago
  In order to "own" something you need to be able to control it. That is, you could in theory build a huge wall, have appropriate armaments etc to keep people from stealing your stuff. Or you can outsource most of that to the government to do things like maintain the ground book, have a police force etc. You don't have to dispute a lot line with your neighbour because you have common resource that records that. Someone can't come and claim you didn't pay for it (or come in and claim they did) because those records are maintained. They also manage the stuff that's harder, not simply more expensive, to maintain such as that paint factory upstream that wants to dump their waste into the water. Sure, in theory you could try to do that all on your own but then you'd have no time to read hn.