Wednesday, 6 January 2010

If there is no harm there is no debt

If we don't pay for Government services we end up in gaol. In effect, payment of taxes is a way to stay out of prison and be free. We buy our freedom from the State with our labour. We work for the State to be free...

Taxes are a toll on access to the Earth. But does the Government have a legitimate right to charge such a toll? And why does payment of taxes absolve the subject of their need to be imprisoned, what difference does that make? Why not let people be free? Why have taxes?

Why not have no Government services?

Force is justified not by the needs of the aggressor, but by the behaviour of the aggressee. What is it that the subjects have done to the Government, that they must pay taxes? Why must the people pay taxes? The Government has not been wronged.

No payment is due if you have done nothing wrong.

The Government is not owed anything if it has not been harmed. There is only a debt if there is (or has been) harm.

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