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This is not at all the same situation. The relationship governments have with their citizens is unique. It goes like this: give us a chunk of your entire inco
by itistoday2 11y ago
This is not at all the same situation.
The relationship governments have with their citizens is unique.
It goes like this: give us a chunk of your entire income forever or else we'll throw you in prison. Don't like it? Say good-bye to all your friends and family and enjoy surviving in a country where you don't understand anything anyone is saying, which will probably just give you the same ultimatum.
That's simply mafia-style protection-money robbery.
There is another option: voluntary association and voluntary taxation. This is just one possible form it can take: http://groupcurrency.org http://groupcurrency.org
- notahacker 11y agoI can assure you both that my landlord will be equally keen to exercise the full force of the law if I don't continue to pay him the rate he asks for each month, and that I'd have to move quite a long way from my friends and family to find somewhere I can live rent free. If he puts the rent up too much then my flatmates and I don't have any hope of voting him out either! Finding a jurisdiction in which English is widely spoken and there's no income tax is actually surprisingly easy...