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They already provide such an incentive by enforcing private property laws.
by mrob 10y ago
They already provide such an incentive by enforcing private property laws.
- baddox 10y agoI was referring to a legal punishment for failing to maximize one's taxable income.
- ZeroGravitas 10y agoSo was the parent comment. They could just help themselves to whatever they needed if the law didn't stop them. Poverty is legally enforced on people that don't earn enough.
- baddox 10y agoWe could certainly have arguments about the allocation of natural resources and the merits of propertarian vs. antipropertarian societies, and I've done and enjoyed a lot of that, but it's out of the scope of this particular argument. In this context, the fact that government will punish a person for taking what is considered the property of another person is not in the same class as a fine or imprisonment for choosing to reduce one's taxable income.