Mr. Perfect wrote:Parodite wrote:Trigger warning! Fascinating how some libertarians struggle with taxes.. and democracy.
Rarely I totally agree with others, but this one in the comment section nails it. Could have written it myself.
Stefan, as much as I like and agree with most of your commentaries, this one is silly. You rant like a cry baby libertarian who considers taxes as theft when a government (a) decides to steal money from the pocket of a person (b) to give it to a person (c). The same silly argument Ben Shapiro makes when he decries socialism. Well, as unfortunate as that may be, it is called DEMOCRACY where a majority decides how much money is taken from the pocket of person (b) and given to person (c) or some other case of interest (d). If you start questioning the right of people on food stamps to vote on certain issues you sound like a true well to do corporate globalist who screams when his financial safe space is somewhat threatened by the voting plebs.
Actually the comment has it quite wrong. We do not live in a democracy, nobody on planet earth lives in a democracy. Nor would they want too, democracy is a tyranny of the majority at the expense of a minority.
Most of us in the West live in representative government. In the US we took it a step further, setting it up as a Constitutional Republic. As such our government has strict limits DESPITE whatever a majority may decide to do.
These limits have severely eroded over the generations, starting with the Federal Reserve, then the New Deal, Great Society and finally obamunism. Molyneaux is part of the project to bring it back. Taxation is immoral and must be treated as such.
At the time of the Founding Fathers government was 1% GDP.
My view on democracy is that is not much of a guarantee for anything, but that in as far is it functions it is quite comparable to trade negotiations in a free market. The content of the trade in politics however is not always obvious... but
something is sold and consumed. From favorable hair-do's en heros, to metaphysical identity, to wages to taxes, to law and law enforcement. Even morality is a commodity that can be negotiated and traded for a price. All is just what people value, think they should have what they haven't yet.
I don't believe much in a society that can do without negotiations. The "violence" of a majority vote is the same "violence" of the market putting a higher price tag on (a) versus (b) due to demand-supply equations. The state is like any market actor that wants more and needs more.. and more. Problem is of course that the state is not exposed to the same market forces as other businesses so it has natural tendency of to grow like a cancer into a monopoly of power. But true monopolies are not sustainable; they become too big not too fail, just like too big banks, central banks, the EU is on its way too collapse. Too big to not fail governments
and the financial structures that support them die through bankruptcy and/or violent revolutions.
Given the damage that too-big-not-to-fail monopolies do to societies, one can just accept and live with it and try be prepared for the next big bust, or perhaps use the battle field of democracy to try make the whole cycle, the ups and downs more moderate, putting some ceilings on the big highs and floor below the big lows to moderate the cycles.
To prune, trim down the naturally cancerous obese government should be maintenance as usual, I like to have something in the constitution. Some Government Obesitas Prevention Act. But a gvt trimmed down and regularly maintained is not enough. Monopolies grow in every corner of life. It is the life force itself doing this. Nothing wrong with it, I'd say let's be grateful that the race towards monopoly exists. Everybody wants the golden medal and be on top. To win, to dominate and have your competitors in the ditch. But there needs to be enough competition between all these forces to have a nice boiling, dynamic soup instead of big monopolies exploding in everyones face with more damage than otherwise necessary.