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I don't see your point. I can usually choose not to rent. Income taxes I think are perfectly acceptable: a limited nonrecurring percentage is taken, ostensibly
by snagglegaggle 7y ago
I don't see your point. I can usually choose not to rent. Income taxes I think are perfectly acceptable: a limited nonrecurring percentage is taken, ostensibly as compensation for society's contribution to your ability to earn an income. Usually the way income is received means you are never able to not pay.
But there are niggles. Under most tax systems value you produce, even for own consumption, must be assessed and taxes paid on it. This is problematic if you take a crop for subsistence farming.
- amiga_500 7y agoYou using land has an opportunity cost for everyone else. You should pay compensation for this. Income tax is not a good idea. You add value, why do we want to discourage you ?
- snagglegaggle 7y agoProperty tax is inimical to the natural state of man. As in my original post, it keeps you from simply existing and forces you to participate in a system you had no business in creating. Income tax is the best compromise I know of. If you want to participate in the economy-at-large then you pay it. If you don't want to, feel free to not participate. People who make more will pay more, but they will still make more.
- eropple 7y ago“Exclusive access to resources, buttressed by a legal system” is not historically or anthropologically the “natural state of man.” Which is fine; lots of great stuff aren’t “the natural state of man.” But don’t bullshit about it, yeah?
- ericd 7y agoYou inherently can’t not participate unless you live in the boonies, which isn’t the land that people are talking about taxing. Cities have to maintain infrastructure for every building - roads, sewers, power, mass transit, police, water, fire protection, courts, the list goes on. Even if you magically don’t use it (no shopping at the supermarket), sitting in the middle of it all lengthens the runs to the other buildings.
- snagglegaggle 7y agoThe boonies are taxed though. That is most of my complaint. If someone is destitute through circumstance they are punished for it.
- throwaway2048 7y agoThe natural state of man does not involve ownership of property...
- infinite8s 7y agoWell except for that which he can enforce himself through means of force.
- rags2riches 7y agoThe natural state of man not participating in an economy can be seen on the YouTube channel Primitive Technology.