pull down to refresh
Dear child, grow up, and accept humans organise in groups, for wealth and security and taxes are the membership fees.
But you wouldn't like it if the US made New Zealand pay a membership fee in exchange for not getting nuked. Then all of a sudden you want your own isolated "sovereign" government where you get to decide where the money goes.
You want only as much taxes and government as you can manipulate into serving your preferred policy agenda. But taxation is a system of coercion and force. So you've already wholeheartedly bought into an ideological foundation that would allow me to steal from you while offering nothing in return except not being killed.
You are apparently as ignorant as you are delusional.
80% of the NZ banking system is majority owned by four US shareholder controlled banks.
They extract from New Zealand billions of dollars annually - it is a form of tribute under the fiat debt slavery that is the petrodollar hegemony.
Those banks are funded with capital from US based sources and the cost of capital is charged as a tax deductible expense by the NZ subsidiary banks- profits are extracted free of tax to our US based banker overlords...in additional to normal shareholder dividends.
NZ pays its tribute to the US military industrial combine via this and many other channels such as buying US military hardware and fighting for US in its various global acts of aggression...like Iraq, Afghanistan and all the way back to Vietnam and Korea.
I understand how human power structures operate and how taxes and tributes are paid.
You do not.
The hierarchy of banks and military are highly aligned.
This is why I hold my liquid capital in Bitcoin...to not support the US military industrial rogue state terrorism...but I also acknowledge this hierarchy is a function of human power structures and all but unavoidable.
Please go live somewhere there is no government and no taxes.
But you will not because you are not suicidal or insane, are you?
Libertarians are bleeding hypocrits, all take, take, take but no give.
Dear child, grow up, and accept humans organise in groups, for wealth and security and taxes are the membership fees.
Otherwise you are out, in the cold, and will be begging for a Big Mac, coke and a blanket within hours.