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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.
That taxes enable a well funded prosperous and harmonious society.
The taxpayer gets a wealth of services for their taxes.
I enjoy public healthcare, education, roads, police, environmental protection, border control, science and industrial research and many more government services that enhance my life and the wealth and security of myself and all citizens.
Would love to see how long you would survive outside of the protective skirts of your nation state - doubt it would be long before you are a sobbing moaning and bedraggled mess begging for a blanket a coke and a Big Mac.
Accept it - taxes are a great thing - you only must pay them to the degree you are prospering...and the degree to which you are prospering is roughly related to the quality of your government combined with your own efforts...and good government does not come cheap.
Who's taxes? You saved yourself from the damage. We can afford to ignore the consequences of taxation because we have Bitcoin.
Of course other people getting taxed to pay me could be considered a good thing within a certain logical framework. It depends if your morality is subjective or objective.
Would love to see how long you would survive outside of the protective skirts of your nation state - doubt it would be long before you are a sobbing moaning and bedraggled mess begging for a blanket a coke and a Big Mac.
Any rational actor is more than happy to pay taxes as they can provision a decent, secure, modern, prosperous and civilised society to live in and enjoy.
No rational actor wants someone else to be taking their money. It's all sadomasochism. Socialism is a disease of the soul.
Freudian death wish
Would love to see how long you would survive outside of the protective skirts of your nation state - doubt it would be long before you are a sobbing moaning and bedraggled mess begging for a blanket a coke and a Big Mac.
Would love to see how long you would survive outside of the protective skirts of your nation state - doubt it would be long before you are a sobbing moaning and bedraggled mess begging for a blanket a coke and a Big Mac.
Taxation is not socialism you moron - taxation is the price of being in a civilised organised group of humans for mutual protection, rule of law, property rights and wealth creation.
It's all extortion. You think extortion is necessary for cooperation. I see it as the opposite of cooperative.
Nonsense you do not understand the fundamental nature of human society.
It is not extortion it is a voluntary and reciprocal relationship where you gain as well as give.
If you don't like taxes go out there where there is no government- but you will not because you are not that suicidal and/or insane- are you?
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!