I think it's funny when Libertarians, whom I otherwise have no beef with what so ever, start talking about how 'taxation is theft'... Which I actually do agree with on a certain level. In an ideal world where everyone was 100% courteous and generous, and no one went with out, and everyone organized their own schools, and libraries, and took care of the streets, and cleaned their own water, and regulated the wellness of the food, then yea, it would be rad to have no taxes... But these libertarians are just silly; because the first (and usually the only) issue they they mention extensively when arguing 'Taxation is theft' is WELFARE.
To me, this shows that we are absolutely not ready for the tax-less Utopia that the capitalist libertarians dream of... They say that charities, which of course, would be more plentiful in a post-taxation, regulation free capitalist system, would take care of the needy. C'mon. If that was really the case, your first beef with taxation would be THE WAR MACHINE. This was the first cause that called for taxation in the New World... And every year it takes more and more to fund the bombing of poor brown people who don't speak our language or talk to the same imaginary friends before they go to bed...
Another thing you'll rarely hear these compassion-less bloodsuckers talk about is the prison industrial complex or the war on drugs... Two of the hugest drains on our budget. These two operations (which are so tightly interwoven, that it's hard to distinguish one from the other) are firstly, a huge cost on our society, in the most base of ways... Tearing families apart, mistreating sick people (yes addiction is a legitimate illness, go snort oxy contin for a month and tell me how yer gonna make it through the next week), and a basics distortion of justice. (You can't sell a bag of harmless grass, but you can drink a gallon of whiskey a day for your whole life if you like, and we can give our kids all the speed in the world and our elderly can get as many opiates as they need to make it through their dredge of an existence) And, I am under the belief that the war on drugs is still implemented today, because without it, we'd lose a huge secret slave work force... They have these dudes in prison, making like 2$ a day, to sew up designer jean and shit... Even though, it's pretty much common knowledge by now that the drug war is big fucking joke.
So basically, whet I'm saying is; you silly libertarian capitalist dudes... Go ahead get rid of taxes; you'll just be at the mercy of the banks and corporations, and crime will increase, sickness will increase, all that stuff... That's what you advocate when you say you want a regulation free capitalist system... You advocate utter despair and injustice.
If you want to decrease taxes, which I think everyone on either side of the fence will say is necessary at this point in history... Then we need to halt the war on drugs... Stop imprisoning sick people, and start treating them... Stop locking up the homeless and political prisoners. Stop locking up small time drug dealers. Billions could be saved. End the imperialist wars... We all know we haven't fought a necesary war in over 65 years, stop the fucking joke. We could be so much better...
-'The kind of capitalism advocated by most libertarians is just as scary to me as the pseudo socialism preached by the "other side..."'
There's good and bad at the extremes of each spectrum. Our generation has to hybridize the good elements of collectivism and free market systems... We need to socially be more collectivist, but I don't think that with the population so high that some kind of market economics could ever cease to exist, even if it was based only on bartering... The market is here to stay, but capitalism? Probably not.
-Mike Heinous
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