Friday, 8 January 2010

Why make taxes compulsory?

Taxation is not voluntary, the Government uses the threat of initial violence to encourage payment from the subjects. So all taxes are provided reluctantly and so then are public services. People do not want to give public services to the recipient, it is taken by force.

Force is used to acquire public services.

If someone is a good person and seeks to help others, they will be angered at being forced to pay taxes which are inefficient and hinder their ability to do more. If we are good people then taxes make the world a terrible place because it is an obstacle to helping others.

We do not need to restrain the natural instincts of each other and the market. Free choice is benevolent, it is when people are coerced and property rights are damaged that destruction results. Whilst tyranny may, in some cases be popular when chosen Democratically, under a narrow system, no one is particularly enthusiastic about carrying it out themselves, for whatever reason. When we are left to our own decisions the outcome is that we eventually decide against a criminal life for an easier one of coexistence. If we remove the fear structure (including that of punishment for failure to pay taxes) then good outcomes will follow.

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