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How will people in those communities pay their taxes?
by embolism 13y ago
How will people in those communities pay their taxes?
- jaekwon 13y agoPresumably through voluntary subscription to private services, or flat taxation of alternative currencies controlled by and tied to local communities where usage of the currency is voluntary. The way we're taxed federally right now with corporate loopholes and crazy income tax laws is bad.
- embolism 13y agoThe people who operate the current tax system probably won't take kindly to an alternative system just being 'declared'. And they have lots of guns.
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- andy_ppp 13y agoWhy would these communities need money? On what basis would they be taxed with no income?
- embolism 13y agoTax is assessed on exchanges of value - not money itself. Otherwise, corporations would be able to just pay people in kind by providing them with accommodation, transport, clothing, etc, and save a giant tax bill. If a significant sized community creates a moneyless economy, the tax man authorities will take an interest, and just start assessing transactions based on financial equivalences.
- jaekwon 13y agoYes, and I hope you do see that taxing this self-sufficient community (assuming it did not require the benefits from the govt like highways and whatnot) would be akin to theft if it were compulsory. Of course all communities require something from the global external economy, but I see no reason why a community's internal transactions would have to be assessed by an external entity. Alas that is not the way of the world today.
- embolism 13y agoI agree with you about the ethics of this. I'm just pointing out that the technology for self sufficiency isn't the major barrier. It's the politics that are the problem.