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You could always go back to the jungle. No taxes there at all.

• pg 16y ago
  That may not be true. The exactions imposed by shamans are effectively taxes imposed by a priestly class. Present customs about taxation seem to derive mostly from tributes extracted by conquering tribes. But even in those cases there may be a thin historical thread connecting them to shamans, since the royal families of conquering tribes often had a semi-divine status.
  • sabat 16y ago
    Present customs about taxation seem to derive mostly from tributes extracted by conquering tribes Tax money builds roads and other infrastructure in common. The origins of a system don't dictate its current reasons for existence -- it may have started as shamanic tribute, but now it's to provide for social needs. (And, perhaps, to pad the coffers of privileged corporations.)