Many countries continue to abuse their power and are trying everything to change regulation in order to keep and increase their control and power over on their slaves, oh I mean citizens. Just a bunch of power hungry and usually corrupt people
Muddying these lines does a disservice to your argument. We aren’t slaves nor serfs. We are mostly disinterested.
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-13/
What the exception does is ban the now-extint practice of "convict leasing"[1]
The naive front, is this secrecy is in the 'interest of the children' (meme.jpg), and thus they haven't a right to public adjudication. Corrupt judges salivate for the proceeds of that.
And some do utilize the laws and systems in our country to increase the amount of slaves though.
This is likely just the tip of the iceberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
I'm not going to argue for the hyperbole of us all being slaves though.
Passports/citizenship: Although most people will see a passport a sa travel document, you could also see it as a certificate of ownership. In many countries it is illegal to have multiple passports which supports this argument.
Try resigning from the United States. It’s very difficult. Also, passports and border patrol have been used to prevent people from leaving a country in order to exploit their labor, and slavery:
> During World War I, European governments introduced border passport requirements for security reasons, and to control the emigration of people with useful skills. These controls remained in place after the war, becoming a standard, though controversial, procedure
Lastly, if you do not comply or pay taxes to your owner, you will be taken by force and sometimes with the result of injury of death.
It's always been how kings and governments raised the money to pay their armies.
In the uk it started around 1800, a few years before ending slavery. Could it just be a substitute?
Sharecropping taxes are income taxes. There weren’t formal income taxes because peasants didn’t have incomes. They paid a tax to their lord that was fixed as a function of the productivity of the land they farmed.
Income tax is even less coercive than previous forms taxation, where people were taken from whether or not they could afford it. With income tax, people who do not work do not pay it. In fact many people who do work do not pay income tax.
You need money. If you work, you give half to the gov.
If you earn “passive”, it still happens, but rates are a lot lower
It is actually the opposite. It all belongs to the rulers, and they generously gift you a portion of it.