> The state of nature is no tax
> You don't get to argue from the point that your preferred taxation regime is simply how things should be
Those two statements seem mildly contradictory.
> You don't get to argue from the point that your preferred taxation regime is simply how things should be
Those two statements seem mildly contradictory.
There is a problem with high taxes on earned income, but anyone complaining about the 15% capital gains tax has problems. The estate tax only applies to this who are very, very fortunate. These are not even earned. Again, if one hates his country, he can move to Dubai, Bermuda or the Glorious Sultanate of Brunei and enjoy their lifestyle.
I do understand that people in California get angry because the state is so poorly run, but most of the US has easily avoided the self-created problems of California and New York city.
Two places which produce an outsized share of the country's businesses and wealth? Seems like they are doing something right.
Once the hunter demands water for meat it becomes an exchange, and is the basis of our capitalist society.
Taxes in that system would be more like 10 men who did not hunt or gather demanded you give them food and water or they would beat your face in.
This seems a little dramatic. Are the 10 men demanding food and water also building roads, cleaning the water, removing waste, educating children, protecting collective assets, or any of the other things that Governments do with collective taxes? If not, the analogy falls apart.