well, while I agree with much of that, I have a basic conflict with two core assumptions in this.
first and foremost, income/property taxation levied on real humans is pure theft, or perhaps could be considered armed extortion. especially property tax... yearly title rental fees to the Municipal, County, or State corporations or they evict the landowner with gun-toting corporate thugs called "police" and auction the title to the next victim. said fees increase consistently as if it were a capital gains tax (based on a bureacratic "revaluation" of the property,) but if it isn't actually sold by the owner, the "gain" in valuation is purely fiction. 15 years of property tax totaled for my house is now rapidly approaching 20% of the purchase price.
I could handle it if only corporations ("persons," per that Citizens United travesty ruling, but definitely not real humans) were taxed on property and profit, but my labor wages are not "profit," they are an exchange of my very valuable time, skills, and efforts for fake currency to pay various other corporations and a few real hunans with. and my property is not "profit" either. I make no money from it in any way, it just acts as a buffer against paying rent and dealing with landlord privacy violations and micromanagement instead of municipal corporation privacy violations and micromanagement.
there is and old saying, roughly: If slavery is keeping 100% of the fruits of a worker's labor, then what percentage makes it NOT slavery?
another one: what makes sex not rape? what makes the transfer of property between entities not theft? CONSENT.
by the time I die, if I haven't sold at a loss to flee the municipal mafioso-council's totally unconstitutional "statutes" first, I'll have paid more to the damn County corporation just to keep my title than I paid for the bloody property in the first place. and it's not like they actually spend that on what they claim, the County and Municipal corporations here both run a deficit budget and take out millions of dollars in usury contracts every year to fund their bureaucracy.
which leads to point number 2, the constant devaluation of the dollar by the not-"federal" privately owned no-"reserve" central banks generating brand new unbacked currency by creating loans. they call the devaluation "price inflation" as a cover, but the gold value of the dollar is currently reduced over 90% from 1912 before the central bank was installed. plus they issue "inflation" percentages as year-over-year instead of total-since-devaluation-began so people don't realize the extent of how damaged the bankers have made US money.
and the value of the unbacked debt note dollar NEVER increases due to the constant increase in money supply. then they have the nerve to charge usury "interest" on that newly fabricated money, further increasing the money supply.
claiming a "Federal Reserve" debt coupon is backed by the "full faith and credit" of the US Corporation is hilarious. first, who in their right mind has any faith in their fiscal comptetence? and second, that "credit" is just the ability to have the central bank generate additional fiat coupons to cover new debts and spending. very circular reasoning on that "credit" part.
Property taxes are not theft. When you buy a title to a piece of land, it comes with rights. And those rights are upheld by the state in which the land resides. The upholding of those rights requires a bureaucracy; judges to settle disputes, sheriffs to deliver summons, tax collectors to fund all these government employees, and then there are the democratic rights of the citizens around you voting for public roads etc.
So, when you buy a land title, you are really buying a subscription to services. And the terms of service of that subscription are that you will pay the taxes that the democratically elected official demands you pay. Otherwise your subscription is forfeit.
So yes, the consent to pay property taxes does happen, it happens when you make the land title purchase or accept the inheritance. And it happens on the group level every election, which makes sense because all the lands are connected.
If people could opt out of taxes, everyone would. And there would be no military or a very flimsy one. And then a better armed neighboring states would roll the tanks in and replace your land title with their own. That’s how it’s always been. There is no private property without property rights. And there is no property rights without taxation.
Great piece as usual. I think about this often especially when it comes to the Middle East. The civilized world shouldn’t cede control of these vast resources to undeveloped cultures who just happen to be sitting there on these resources. They do not have the capacity to develop these resources and never will develop this capacity. It’s like letting a group of underdeveloped children chasing butterflies in the outfield of a Major League Baseball field stop an mlb team from taking the field and playing the game. What you do is brush them aside and tell them to sit down or give them a job fetching water and bats while the professionals use the field for its intended purpose. You don’t barter with them and try to let them play third base with the pros… you don’t have to kill them either but they have to take a backseat!
A most enjoyable read — enlightening, edifying, and very entertaining. Thank you. (And hope to be in position, soon, to become a paid subscriber. In meantime, know of my gratitude for being able to read these pieces gratis.)
well, while I agree with much of that, I have a basic conflict with two core assumptions in this.
first and foremost, income/property taxation levied on real humans is pure theft, or perhaps could be considered armed extortion. especially property tax... yearly title rental fees to the Municipal, County, or State corporations or they evict the landowner with gun-toting corporate thugs called "police" and auction the title to the next victim. said fees increase consistently as if it were a capital gains tax (based on a bureacratic "revaluation" of the property,) but if it isn't actually sold by the owner, the "gain" in valuation is purely fiction. 15 years of property tax totaled for my house is now rapidly approaching 20% of the purchase price.
I could handle it if only corporations ("persons," per that Citizens United travesty ruling, but definitely not real humans) were taxed on property and profit, but my labor wages are not "profit," they are an exchange of my very valuable time, skills, and efforts for fake currency to pay various other corporations and a few real hunans with. and my property is not "profit" either. I make no money from it in any way, it just acts as a buffer against paying rent and dealing with landlord privacy violations and micromanagement instead of municipal corporation privacy violations and micromanagement.
there is and old saying, roughly: If slavery is keeping 100% of the fruits of a worker's labor, then what percentage makes it NOT slavery?
another one: what makes sex not rape? what makes the transfer of property between entities not theft? CONSENT.
by the time I die, if I haven't sold at a loss to flee the municipal mafioso-council's totally unconstitutional "statutes" first, I'll have paid more to the damn County corporation just to keep my title than I paid for the bloody property in the first place. and it's not like they actually spend that on what they claim, the County and Municipal corporations here both run a deficit budget and take out millions of dollars in usury contracts every year to fund their bureaucracy.
which leads to point number 2, the constant devaluation of the dollar by the not-"federal" privately owned no-"reserve" central banks generating brand new unbacked currency by creating loans. they call the devaluation "price inflation" as a cover, but the gold value of the dollar is currently reduced over 90% from 1912 before the central bank was installed. plus they issue "inflation" percentages as year-over-year instead of total-since-devaluation-began so people don't realize the extent of how damaged the bankers have made US money.
and the value of the unbacked debt note dollar NEVER increases due to the constant increase in money supply. then they have the nerve to charge usury "interest" on that newly fabricated money, further increasing the money supply.
claiming a "Federal Reserve" debt coupon is backed by the "full faith and credit" of the US Corporation is hilarious. first, who in their right mind has any faith in their fiscal comptetence? and second, that "credit" is just the ability to have the central bank generate additional fiat coupons to cover new debts and spending. very circular reasoning on that "credit" part.
Property taxes are not theft. When you buy a title to a piece of land, it comes with rights. And those rights are upheld by the state in which the land resides. The upholding of those rights requires a bureaucracy; judges to settle disputes, sheriffs to deliver summons, tax collectors to fund all these government employees, and then there are the democratic rights of the citizens around you voting for public roads etc.
So, when you buy a land title, you are really buying a subscription to services. And the terms of service of that subscription are that you will pay the taxes that the democratically elected official demands you pay. Otherwise your subscription is forfeit.
So yes, the consent to pay property taxes does happen, it happens when you make the land title purchase or accept the inheritance. And it happens on the group level every election, which makes sense because all the lands are connected.
If people could opt out of taxes, everyone would. And there would be no military or a very flimsy one. And then a better armed neighboring states would roll the tanks in and replace your land title with their own. That’s how it’s always been. There is no private property without property rights. And there is no property rights without taxation.
Imagine asking for permission to overthrow Sudan
just do it faggot
That's the spirit.
Good work I thought that was really well argued and a pleasure to read.
Great piece as usual. I think about this often especially when it comes to the Middle East. The civilized world shouldn’t cede control of these vast resources to undeveloped cultures who just happen to be sitting there on these resources. They do not have the capacity to develop these resources and never will develop this capacity. It’s like letting a group of underdeveloped children chasing butterflies in the outfield of a Major League Baseball field stop an mlb team from taking the field and playing the game. What you do is brush them aside and tell them to sit down or give them a job fetching water and bats while the professionals use the field for its intended purpose. You don’t barter with them and try to let them play third base with the pros… you don’t have to kill them either but they have to take a backseat!
You have no idea how well the Afrika project could work with the right guys and a free hand.
A most enjoyable read — enlightening, edifying, and very entertaining. Thank you. (And hope to be in position, soon, to become a paid subscriber. In meantime, know of my gratitude for being able to read these pieces gratis.)
Why not just get rid of race and sex quotas?
This article is a breath of fresh optimism that runs counter to everything I was taught in "social studies."
Read my Op Ed today discussing the $39.2T Deficit
https://gimmeabreakmedia.substack.com/p/daily-op-ed-gimme-a-break-the-phantom?r=637evt&utm_medium=ios