Tax Isn't About Revenue, It's A Propaganda Tool

Hey Jesstaxpayers

I'm pretty biased when it comes to taxes, as most people I hate them but a few people, I avoid them as much as possible. Paying your taxes is one of the biggest marketing schemes every treated, well that and that diamonds are valuable but that I won't go into in this post.

We all pay our taxes as we are told that it is used to fund society, pay for the police, run the government, pay for roads and civil works and it's our debt as being part of society.

I always thought this was a load of shit, and now we can see that it is, yes part of it is true, some of your money does go into these programs, in what is probably the worlds most inefficient way to do anything of value.

That someone is paying and it's you

If your taxes were needed, why would we need to deficit spend, surly if there's something wrong here that years ago people didn't have an income tax, or property tax or all these other taxes and guess what? The society worked, but somewhere along the line they kept moving the goalposts, governments become bigger and taxes became more complex.

We've now created a world where people all over the country look to government and say take more of our money (through tax or inflation), so you can give some of us free stuff, and a small subset gets paid to give us free stuff, that we paid for actually.

It's so weird, and yet, humans never cease to amaze me. When I speak to people about this, they feel it's their duty, yet always complain about how ineffective governments are, so why do you keep paying? This is the definition of instant, doing the same thing every year and expecting a different result.

Keep it simple

I always say a measure of a prosperous society and good government is one where there is little to no government and people live on what they earn and create. It's a simple incentive structure, and it's worked for thousands of years, but governments have corrupted us to think it's not good enough.

Tax systems are grossly inefficient

Most people are sold the idea that tax is the redistribution fo wealth, taking from the rich and giving to the poor, when in fact its the other way around. This is snake oil salesmen taken to an entirely new level.

Firstly, they tax all of us through various means + through inflation, so no one is exempt.

Secondly, inflation is then either pumped into asset prices or redistricted through government contracts and funnelled to people with the closest ties to the government.

Thirdly the rest of the inflation is pushed to banks and given to the asset holders through various financial plumbing products.

This effectively makes the rich, richer.

Tax laws benefit the rich

Then companies with huge tax obligations would rather pay lawyers and accountants a percentage of their income to avoid paying taxes, so these rich keep more of their funds.

While individuals and small business owners who don't know how tax laws work or can't afford to get access to these tax loopholes constantly overpay, nailing the small fry and rewarding the big fish.

Taxes reduce production and GDP

We are often told that taxes need to be used to pay for government and boost the economy, but when around 10 cents of every dollar only makes it to the actual production of goods and services, with the level of corruption as well as not having the profit inventive to drive down prices, you see gross inefficiencies in the economy that cost the world trillions.

Stockholm syndrome of tax

How fitting that I used this term, from a country that pays so much tax, but speaking to people about this, they often say you know the taxes go towards good. We get free this and that, but they can't see the unintended costs.

They can't see that they robbed someone of the ability to enter the market and create a better service; they only see what's in front of them. We are so wrapped up in these lies we cannot see the truth, that is so obvious.

However, since we have had to pay these taxes, we don't want to see ourselves as the idiot, so we advocate it, we fight to protect it, we want to feel as if we did the right thing.

I firmly believe people would know better what to do with the wealth they earned than any government could, self-interest trumps any government policy and the self-interest of society can be put to way more efficient use than governments self-interest trumping all.

Crypto should not be taxed

I agree if you want to use fiat you should play by government rules, but if I want to use crypto, I should not have to play by their rules. If I want to live, earn, pay in crypto and reduce my tax burden, it should be my human and constitutional right to do so and not be forced into oppressive systems.

Whatever happened to the voluntary exchange of funds? Can't we get back to that?

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