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Your question has already been answered for anyone reading the thread.
If you missed it go back and find it.
If you can't I don't have time for imbecilic trolls..
What argument?? I said taxation is theft and you complained about the Korean War as though the US was on the wrong side.
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.
But you are avoiding it whenever it's within your power personally. You can't tell other people it's unavoidable after you dumped your own hoarded wealth into a libertarian-invented tax-evasion machine.
Wrong.
I pay taxes on my land and BTC capital gains.
The taxes on my BTC gains are more tax than I have ever paid in over 5 decades as a taxpayer.
They provision the roads and infrastructure that enhances the value of my land and the security, law and order, free health care and education, social welfare, public housing, and rules based governance and administration that enhances my life as a citizen in a stable productive mixed economy democratic nation.
Just avoid supporting the US rogue state as much as I can by not holding any fiat in their NZ banking oligopoly.
The taxes on my BTC gains are more tax than I have ever paid in over 5 decades as a taxpayer.
That's besides the point. You're the only one in the country doing it. If everyone adopted your strategy then the government would collapse because they can't finance all the fake programs you're talking about without printing money. You think your capital gains tax is enough to make up for a literal money printer? It's infinitely not enough.
Just avoid supporting the US rogue state as much as I can by not holding any fiat in their NZ banking oligopoly.
Yeah instead of FDR's socialist US, you allied yourself with a dissident international confederacy of private business that is far more radically anti-tax than the founders of the original US. Good job.
As a result of BTC I am paying more tax to support my NZ government than ever before.
As a result of property which has created most of my wealth I paid fuck all tax because CGs on property are not taxed in NZ...which is a massive loophole that I have exploited but do not entirely agree with.
Either way I pay my taxes even if I disagree on some of the fine points of how we are taxed because I recognise that taxes enable the collective action that is required to have a civilised prosperous and secure society.
I do however minimise the degree to which I contribute toward the US military industrial combine that extends its tentacles into nearly every liberal western democracy via banks and other power projection mechanisms.
Holding most of my liquid capital in sats rather than dollars enables me to avoid contributing toward the US fiat debt slavery bankers cartel/military industrial complex to a large and satisfying degree.
If you want to not pay taxes go somewhere there is no government and good luck to you surviving let alone enjoying a safe and prosperous life!
As a result of BTC I am paying more tax to support my NZ government than ever before.
Yeah you're proving the Laffer curve argument correct. It's no different from harvesting any other product from a living thing. Before there exists anything that can be taxed, you have to let it grow independently for a while without taxation.
What I'm saying is very simple: the process of taxation means harming one person to serve the gain of someone else. You're abstracting it out into something called "society" (which in contrast to individuals, lacks any consciousness of its own), but you were very quick to disregard mainstream opinion on Bitcoin. You adopted it only a few years after the pro-Hitler podcasts discovered why it was useful. You're a socialist when it comes to philosophizing about other people's money but you're a reactionary when it's your money at stake.
What, we can't have a simple yes or no on whether it's okay to extort people for the common good? Every argument has to factor in the Treaty of Versailles? Are there no moral principles outside the context of your geopolitical grievances?