25 sats \ 9 replies \ @Undisciplined 15 Sep 2023 \ parent \ on: could taxes be a thing of the past? bitcoin
Hard agree. I was disappointed by the direction this post took. Why do people privilege the interests of the state so often? Let the state worry about how to steal from us and help us figure out how to not be stolen from.
I think it's the result of an education and media-based propaganda process that makes people think there can't be an alternative to the almighty commie state. Our society is growing an army of Peter Pans
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I've thought for a while now that most people literally have Stockholm Syndrome towards the state. That's why there's so much more concern about the state's finances than their own. You're right that it's the result of persistent propaganda that starts early in childhood. Cult programming is hard to break.
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Yep. I know people that personally feel responsible for healthy gov households and are begging for higher taxes. Germans and Spaniards. And it's always the same: I finish with my line ''taxes are theft'' just to bring in the same phrase: ''And who will be building the streeeeeets??''
But to me it's amusement
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my point was that if the state did not take money but only could get money by providing a bond like the volcano bonds in El Salvador, we mighty be able to get out of a situation based on taxes and governments.
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That's fair. My point is that once they stop stealing people's money I couldn't care less how they try to generate revenue.
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I was just trying to see a way to make them stop the theft.
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Got You now. But: if they find another way financing their growing power society still won't improve. And they still will need more tax revenues as their bureaucray and activities are growing without having a limit.
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They have no desire to stop. That's the actual problem. The way to stop the theft is to build out parallel economic structures that they can't tap into.
If there were a desire to steal less from the public, there are already plenty of mechanisms that they could be using.
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that is an unfortunate truth you hit right there, that governments have no desire or incentive to stop taking taxes.