Miksi köyhän työläisen pitää maksaa veroa siitä että vaihtaa työtään rahaan ja voittoa ei synny kummallekaan. Työnantaja saa voittoa sitten kun myy tuotteen ja summasta vähennetään työvoima- ja materiaalikulut.
Kautta historian verotus on ollut kaikenlaisen pahan alkujuuri, jokainen yhteiskunta jossa verotust on sovellettu on verottanut itsensä hengiltä:
THE PRINCIPLES OF TAXATION
From the history of taxation, I believe we can deduce certain principles. In moments of wishful thinking, I imagine that somewhere, sometime some clever people will create a civilization where these principles are understood and applied:
Tax is terminal. Any civilization that introduces taxation will eventually tax itself to death.
Generally a civilization has a lifespan of more than a hundred years. The time period between the introduction of taxation and the collapse of the civilization also tends to be more than a hundred years. This period is more than the current human lifespan. Taxes tend to start at a low rate and are gradually increased over many years - "the frog that is gradually cooked." Also, the introduction and raising of taxes are invariably accompanied with extensive propaganda to brainwash taxpayers. For these reasons it is very difficult for an individual to appreciate the nature of taxation and its consequences.
The monopoly power to issue currency is a power to tax in the form of inflation. Anyone with a monopoly power to issue currency, will use this power to tax users of the currency at a gradually increasing rate, until the currency loses all its value.
Tax is theft, legalized robbery, crime. Some people use intimidation, fraud, coercion, force, threat of force, violence, and terror to rob other people of their property, the fruit of their labor. Tax is economic rape. In the final analysis, tax is collected at the point of a gun.
Tax is parasitism. It involves some people living as parasites off the production of others.
Tax is the modern incarnation of cannibalism. Property, including what we produce, are extensions of our bodies - human capital. Taxation is the forcible, cannibalistic consumption by some of the human capital of others - "eat out their substance." Tax destroys human capital.
Tax penalizes the producer and rewards the destroyer - it takes from the producer and gives to the destroyer. Over time this leads to destruction of production.
Tax is like cancer. Once it takes hold in a society it grows and spreads.
Tax establishes the moral principle that might is right, the strong take from the weak, the many from the few. Tax destroys morality.
Morally, tax is similar to a mafia protection racket - with the difference that the mafiosi operate in a simple, straightforward manner ("Pay up, or else!"); while tax collectors clothe their economic rape in high-sounding hypocrisy ("Pay your fair share!; for the good of society!; voluntary compliance!").
Tax laws, rules, and regulations grow in number and complexity to the point that any taxpayer can be prosecuted for being a tax criminal, no matter how much tax he or she pays.
With few exceptions, "tax reform" increases taxes and makes the tax laws, rules, and regulations more complex, numerous, and voluminous. As this happens, the taxed society develops a class of "tax protectors" - attorneys, accountants, and advisors, who take advantage of "tax loopholes." But many of them merely use the tax system to prey off its victims.
Over time, in every taxed society, tax collectors tend to become more vicious, violent, and criminal - eventually becoming a terrorist Gestapo.
Tax collectors develop informer and entrapment systems. They encourage neighbor to spy upon neighbor. Banks become a central part of their informer-network. They use secret agents to provoke their victims into committing "tax crimes."
In every taxed society the justice system becomes closely linked with the tax system. Judges become corrupt tax collectors. The police becomes a criminal class. People lose all respect for "the law."
In every taxed society the tax system develops into a social control mechanism that is particularly used against "dissidents" and "public enemies" who can't be otherwise neutralized.
In every taxed society the tax system is used to violate individual rights and to eventually destroy individual liberty.
In every taxed society the most devious, parasitic and cannibalistic criminals tend to rise to the top. The "great leaders" of a taxed society tend to be the most murderous monsters of history.
Tax finances war. The power to tax is the power to conduct war.
Kautta historian verotus on ollut kaikenlaisen pahan alkujuuri, jokainen yhteiskunta jossa verotust on sovellettu on verottanut itsensä hengiltä:
THE PRINCIPLES OF TAXATION
From the history of taxation, I believe we can deduce certain principles. In moments of wishful thinking, I imagine that somewhere, sometime some clever people will create a civilization where these principles are understood and applied:
Tax is terminal. Any civilization that introduces taxation will eventually tax itself to death.
Generally a civilization has a lifespan of more than a hundred years. The time period between the introduction of taxation and the collapse of the civilization also tends to be more than a hundred years. This period is more than the current human lifespan. Taxes tend to start at a low rate and are gradually increased over many years - "the frog that is gradually cooked." Also, the introduction and raising of taxes are invariably accompanied with extensive propaganda to brainwash taxpayers. For these reasons it is very difficult for an individual to appreciate the nature of taxation and its consequences.
The monopoly power to issue currency is a power to tax in the form of inflation. Anyone with a monopoly power to issue currency, will use this power to tax users of the currency at a gradually increasing rate, until the currency loses all its value.
Tax is theft, legalized robbery, crime. Some people use intimidation, fraud, coercion, force, threat of force, violence, and terror to rob other people of their property, the fruit of their labor. Tax is economic rape. In the final analysis, tax is collected at the point of a gun.
Tax is parasitism. It involves some people living as parasites off the production of others.
Tax is the modern incarnation of cannibalism. Property, including what we produce, are extensions of our bodies - human capital. Taxation is the forcible, cannibalistic consumption by some of the human capital of others - "eat out their substance." Tax destroys human capital.
Tax penalizes the producer and rewards the destroyer - it takes from the producer and gives to the destroyer. Over time this leads to destruction of production.
Tax is like cancer. Once it takes hold in a society it grows and spreads.
Tax establishes the moral principle that might is right, the strong take from the weak, the many from the few. Tax destroys morality.
Morally, tax is similar to a mafia protection racket - with the difference that the mafiosi operate in a simple, straightforward manner ("Pay up, or else!"); while tax collectors clothe their economic rape in high-sounding hypocrisy ("Pay your fair share!; for the good of society!; voluntary compliance!").
Tax laws, rules, and regulations grow in number and complexity to the point that any taxpayer can be prosecuted for being a tax criminal, no matter how much tax he or she pays.
With few exceptions, "tax reform" increases taxes and makes the tax laws, rules, and regulations more complex, numerous, and voluminous. As this happens, the taxed society develops a class of "tax protectors" - attorneys, accountants, and advisors, who take advantage of "tax loopholes." But many of them merely use the tax system to prey off its victims.
Over time, in every taxed society, tax collectors tend to become more vicious, violent, and criminal - eventually becoming a terrorist Gestapo.
Tax collectors develop informer and entrapment systems. They encourage neighbor to spy upon neighbor. Banks become a central part of their informer-network. They use secret agents to provoke their victims into committing "tax crimes."
In every taxed society the justice system becomes closely linked with the tax system. Judges become corrupt tax collectors. The police becomes a criminal class. People lose all respect for "the law."
In every taxed society the tax system develops into a social control mechanism that is particularly used against "dissidents" and "public enemies" who can't be otherwise neutralized.
In every taxed society the tax system is used to violate individual rights and to eventually destroy individual liberty.
In every taxed society the most devious, parasitic and cannibalistic criminals tend to rise to the top. The "great leaders" of a taxed society tend to be the most murderous monsters of history.
Tax finances war. The power to tax is the power to conduct war.
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