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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @TomK OP 9 Jun \ parent \ on: Miley delivers: Shrinking down the state to a healthy level news
Absolutely. Taxes are theft
It's not even about taxes. I don't mind a government existing as long as it focuses on providing useful public services at a reasonable cost (especially those that benefit from some centralisation like roads or the justice system).
But "diversity and gender"? It's a waste of public money (be it from taxes or money debasement) whichever way you look at it, and not the government's business in the first place.
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The Police is only a small part of the wider justice system, and arguably the "easy" one.
BTW, make sure you don't confuse private police with private security.
Private security is employed by YOU, protects YOUR interests and scales in effectiveness with how much you pay them.
Police is employed by a community, protects the community's need to enforce law and order, and it very much shouldn't make a preference for those who pay it more (that would be corruption).
A police force may very well be private, in the sense that it's a privately owned enterprise, but it nevertheless acts out of a mandate of a community and is funded through taxes or a security subscription or whatever it's called.
The hard part is the system of laws and courts. I remain convinced that this benefits from centralisation mainly due to unification. I think laws should be lean but universal.
Imagine an AnCap society where a "community" (defined by a territory with some central governance and jurisdiction) is the size of a city, maybe a county. Imagine going on vacation by car and having to study a dozen law books to make sure you don't break any laws (this already is a problem e.g. in the US where states differ in legality of certain substances and firearms - imagine the laws fragmented even further). Running an international corporation would entail operating in possibly thousands of jurisdictions.
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I've been imagining & researching that AnCap society since 2009. There are literally hundreds of books by libertarian anarchists on how to smooth out those spots like jurisdictional law.
One very common theme is a system of Dispute Resolution companies called Assurance Agencies. Nothing like insurance, Assurance is a service that everyone who wants to participate in society subscribes to and it has your back during all justice-related situations. They'll read the law books for you. (But of course anarchist law books will never be even 0.01% as thick as today's statist law books...)
Fragmentation doesn't mean basic rights change, which should all be based upon the NAP in the first place.
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