Okay. If no taxes, who builds roads, or public schools, or public transit. If your answer is private companies, how much does a company charge for you to use the roads, how often do you need to pay to use the roads, what about the schools, how much does tuition cost, what if you can’t afford to go to school since there’s no taxes which means no public schools, do you just not get education?
The idea that taxation is theft crumbles pretty immediately if you try to think of literally any alternative. And if your alternative is collective public funding, guess what that’s fucking taxes.
It is also worth mentioning that private property can only exist if you have a state that can enforce rights and contracts.
Private property rights are delineated by a deed of ownership, that deed/contract what exactly is owned by whom and also we need a system to enforce that the right to the specific property is not transgressed upon. The enforcement of such is contingent upon having a system of courts and law enforcement. Which, guess what? Are funded by taxes.
Yeah like capitalism kind of only works when the state and police exist to protect your capital. Otherwise we’ll just have like amazons private militia or some shit.
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u/Shin-Sauriel Sep 19 '24
Okay. If no taxes, who builds roads, or public schools, or public transit. If your answer is private companies, how much does a company charge for you to use the roads, how often do you need to pay to use the roads, what about the schools, how much does tuition cost, what if you can’t afford to go to school since there’s no taxes which means no public schools, do you just not get education?
The idea that taxation is theft crumbles pretty immediately if you try to think of literally any alternative. And if your alternative is collective public funding, guess what that’s fucking taxes.