But with taxes I have to buy a ticket even if I own the cinema.
Taxes are not fees like others. I don’t have a choice to opt out. And I have to pay whether I benefit or not.
But with taxes I have to buy a ticket even if I own the cinema.
Taxes are not fees like others. I don’t have a choice to opt out. And I have to pay whether I benefit or not.
In fact, you have to pay in inverse relation to the benefit you get: people who benefit most from taxation don’t pay taxes, the people who benefit the least (most negatively) from taxation pay the most.
That’s pretty surprising coming from someone on this board. After all, when you factor in the hidden tax of inflation, those who pay the lowest amount of “taxes” are actually victimized the most, while many in the upper echelons of the economic ladder, who nominally pay high taxes, get much more benefits than they pay for.
Guess what, you’d have to do that at most cinemas, even without taxes, if you are the owner. Same applies to a supermarket. Even the owners pay at the cashiers for goods the want.
That can be argued, in deed.
As I said, you can emigrate. Alternatively try doing business without a bank account.
Same with many goods bought on markets.
Given the existing power relation in a current taxes are indeed a coerced means of income for the government and its employees as well as cronies…
I advocate the repeal of the 16th, but nobody listens to me.
Frankly, instead of passing taxes to the states, I think the Federal government should be stripped of all authority to tax. If the politicians want money, let them get on TV and beg for it. Let 'em hold a telethon.
Well you know I like this idea, but I think mine is actually very similar. Right now you have these “Fair Taxers” who want to reform the tax code. I think the argument can be made to them – “Hey, why have a national sales tax when we can let each state decide how its portion of taxes should be collected?” Signing on with something like the Fair Tax is a betrayal of libertarian principles, but stripping the federal government’s power to lay direct taxes and decentralizing that authority is not. The outcome would be this: The states would re-emerge as sovereign entities, putting pressure on the feds to cut spending. There would be some classical tension between the feds and the states. The difference between my plan and yours is that my plan could potentially capitalize on the tax reform fervor that is quite sizeable.
A good (and I use this term relatively) alternative to the income tax would be a subsidy from the citizens to the government. In the feudal ages, kings had to call an assembly of men respected in the community to basically beg them for money. They had no authority to tax by their own power but had to ask first, and the subsidizer had conditions to their giving of money (such as the king promising not to put impurities in the money supply.) While not perfect, this would put some serious restrictions on the power of the government.
Nobody held a sword to my throat and forced me to see Beowulf this weekend. If I do not want to pay taxes, then I have to abstain from all economic activity; emigration is not an option, as every allegedly civilized country on Earth levies taxes.