Taxation in the original form of sales and tariffs was acceptable as the purpose of government was to provide the security for said transactions and bartering was still tax free. Taxation without alternatives is theft at gunpoint.
Tariffs are taxation in the sense someone ends up paying the government. Sales taxes were originally for the shipping and transport of goods between businesses while the business to consumer transactions were all bartering/ tax free. It’s inarguably true that taxation today is a means to suppress individual accumulation of wealth. It was one of the most pervasive government authoritarian policies and income tax was ruled unconstitutional originally.
Tariffs are an opportunity cost to hedge against the heedless import of foreign goods, since the main beneficiaries of that commerce are outside of the nation.
Taxation is extraction of wealth from your own population. This is self defeating because economics is subtractive. Even if it wasn't stealing from your own, it'd still be a bad idea.
Tariffs, and several other things in history besides(like the Roman habit of pillaging nearby countries), are extraction of wealth from foreigners.
It’s inarguably true that taxation today is a means to suppress individual accumulation of wealth.
Yes, so the government takes the money from regular people, and they introduce the money that they create right at the top of the financial pyramid. It is undoubtedly a way to keep regular people in their place while enriching elites.
I think what people don't get is the money flows upward. It is trickle up economics, and that's what you get from usury.
Every law you obey translates directly to a reduction in personal liberty. This is the trade-off for rights, like property, that wouldn't exist without government.
For example, losing your freedom to murder in exchange for the right to not be murdered.
And this how they will arrest Trump. Some Fed probably dropped a few bit coins into his donation that has no way to track it back. Makes me think of what they did with Al Capone. Constant arrests until they got him on tax evasion because of his lawyer.
All taxation is theft. This evidences that nicely.
Taxation in the original form of sales and tariffs was acceptable as the purpose of government was to provide the security for said transactions and bartering was still tax free. Taxation without alternatives is theft at gunpoint.
Tariffs aren't taxation anyway. Sales taxes are.
The more salient point however, is if taxes are offered to fund the legitimate purview of a government or not. By far the vast majority are not.
Tariffs are taxation in the sense someone ends up paying the government. Sales taxes were originally for the shipping and transport of goods between businesses while the business to consumer transactions were all bartering/ tax free. It’s inarguably true that taxation today is a means to suppress individual accumulation of wealth. It was one of the most pervasive government authoritarian policies and income tax was ruled unconstitutional originally.
Tariffs are an opportunity cost to hedge against the heedless import of foreign goods, since the main beneficiaries of that commerce are outside of the nation.
And it still ends up with government funding, tariffs were the main source of government income for a good portion of American history
Which isn't especially relevant.
Taxation is extraction of wealth from your own population. This is self defeating because economics is subtractive. Even if it wasn't stealing from your own, it'd still be a bad idea.
Tariffs, and several other things in history besides(like the Roman habit of pillaging nearby countries), are extraction of wealth from foreigners.
You forget that tariffs are paid by the consumer, not the producers.
Yes, so the government takes the money from regular people, and they introduce the money that they create right at the top of the financial pyramid. It is undoubtedly a way to keep regular people in their place while enriching elites.
I think what people don't get is the money flows upward. It is trickle up economics, and that's what you get from usury.
I'd say it's worse, it's constructive armed robbery. You're coerced with the promise of force/incarceration if you don't get out your wallet.
Only insomuch as there exists a "liberty" to kill or rape or steal anyway. Spoiler, there isn't.
Laws that are malum prohibitum usually do violate liberty. Laws that are malum in se most certainly do not, because there is no right to do evil.
Incorrect. Name another law that compels action like taxation does. Taxation is unique in law.
Correct.
Every law you obey translates directly to a reduction in personal liberty. This is the trade-off for rights, like property, that wouldn't exist without government.
For example, losing your freedom to murder in exchange for the right to not be murdered.
What is the right associated with taxation?
This is the problem with trying to police wealth.
The value of these coins (if illiquid) can easily be inflated and unknown.
But the retards who run our country in congress didn’t think for one second…
Banking lobbyists control congress by the balls.
Especially democrats like Elizabeth Warren. There is only one way she has a net worth of $50m off her $200k salary.
High cheekbones energy.
Jerry Brito is lying. He is citing an amended law that explicitly only applies to brokers, not the general public.
Good news hopefully, but these laws are all bullshit
How cute, he thinks they'll be prosecuted.
And this how they will arrest Trump. Some Fed probably dropped a few bit coins into his donation that has no way to track it back. Makes me think of what they did with Al Capone. Constant arrests until they got him on tax evasion because of his lawyer.
Um, why?
Almost all coins, certainly the big ones, have publicly available records of who holds what and when.
The blockchains have a list of public keys.
The IRS now wants you to identify your public keys.
Gold, women, and sheep
And CS2 gun skins.
Hey, it's more substantial than what's currently backing the dollar.
Ass, gas, or grass.
counterparty risk