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> You should have to do something that benefits the public in order for the public to grant you that right In our corner of the world we call that "taxes". Wh
by cscurmudgeon 4y ago
> You should have to do something that benefits the public in order for the public to grant you that right
In our corner of the world we call that "taxes".
What proportion of property comes from "Being your rich uncle's favorite nephew"
Where do you propose we stop? Do we reevaluate your assets every day and expropriate them if some bureaucrat deems you are not "contributing" to society. Who makes that determination?
Why stop at property? If humans are deemed not beneficial maybe the state can take over your body and donate your organs?
Think that is hyperbolic? Nope. CCP started with property and is now doing forced organ harvesting.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests-organs-detainees-tribunal-concludes-n1018646 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests...
- __MatrixMan__ 4y agoThe problem with continual taxation like that is that the kind of entities that collect taxes become less trustworthy over time. So maybe the expenditure starts out as beneficial to the people, but over time it fails to corruption. So then you get this situation where everybody knows that the taxes are doing more harm than good, and somebody really ought to do something about it, but nobody wants a discontinuity of government because their property is justified via taxation by the old corrupt one.