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Taxes that fund the collective infrastructure that makes business more secure and profitable are arguably legitimate.
Taxes that seek to obstruct the use of alternative MoE besides the state imposed fiat monopoly are not- they are actively obstructing a free market in MoE choices.
Your government and mine, are owned by sly, rentseeking, fiat debt slavery bankers.
Own it.
I think a reasonable case could be made for the 10% of the government's budget that is focused on preventing violent crime and blockading Iran. But the roads, healthcare, and education that you're thinking of are pure grift. No taxation is needed to build nice things. Private sector companies invent and build things all the time, and taxes consistently punish them and waste the profits on fraud.
The history of train construction in the US proves time and time again that collective infrastructure, if there is such a thing, is best handled by the private sector.
When you set out to build something for the sake of your own profit, you naturally make it as nice as possible, because otherwise you don't get paid. When you point a gun at someone productive to make them pay for someone with no financial incentive to build something no one asked for, out of some vague notion of charity, then you end up with trash.
We have a very different experience here in NZ where the neoliberal privatisation of formerly state owned strategic assets like rail, airline, power generation and distribution and community banking have had mostly very negative results for consumers and businesses as prices have gone up and service levels have gone down.
IMO it is a complex matter where the political will to operate such strategic often natural monopoly infrastructure is crucial to it being better than trusting ownership to profitr motivated private operators.
China is an example of how with the political will and determination it is possible to build an extremely competitive economy by utilising the efficiency and scale of state managed strategic assets.
With private ownership comes the many dangers of rentseeking market capture and corporate lobbyists capture of the political process.
The Big Oil war being fought across the global to cut off Chinas energy suppliers shows where this can end up- in genocide and war crimes!
Thank you for your attention to this matter!
China is an example of how with the political will and determination it is possible to build an extremely competitive economy by utilising the efficiency and scale of state managed strategic assets.
Apparently not, because all of your friends are getting bombed, blockaded, and kidnapped while you issue strongly worded condemnations lol. The communist party is about to get conquered by a government less than half of a percent its size by landmass. Where will the argument for efficiency be then?
I despise this take. It makes it sound like the tax code is incompatible with using Bitcoin.
The tax code is incompatible with doing business and living a productive, peaceful life because it's immoral.
When someone works for BTC and holds it, that is already contributing to the "common good" in a much more efficient way than taxation would force on them. I don't feel like negotiating a compromise with the extortionists who organized the corona lockdowns. My side has more men, more guns, more money, God, the Founding Fathers, and the Executive Branch. If anything Newsom and Mamdani should be paying me.