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 I don’t seem to get as many #zaps when I’m arguing in favor of taxes 😂 
 Duh. 

You honestly seem like a decent dude, but, geez, man.  
 Thanks man, I appreciate it! I’m just trying to be intellectually honest. I’ve been doing a deep dive into Bitcoin, Austrian economics, and anarcho-capitalism, but I’ve yet to hear convincing arguments against a minimum viable state and minimum viable taxes. 
 It's simply immoral. It is corrected. It is extortion of property. How can it be anything but immoral and wrong?  
 Because I think the alternatives are worse or don’t work at the extremes. Lesser of two evils kind of deal. If I can be convinced that the alternatives would work, I’d be willing to change my mind. 

Privately owned military doesn’t make sense. Privately owned diplomats don’t make sense. Having all transportation and transportation infrastructure  be privately owned doesn’t make sense. 

I think you guys think that I am arguing for socialism. Even if 0.01% of transportation should be public, with 99.99% being privately owned, that still justifies taxation. And you are better off for it. Same thing applies to healthcare too. 
 Nothing should be public. .01% evil is still evil.

Geez, dude.  
 It’s not evil if it is something that you are willing to pay for. 
 Then YOU pay for it. But it still is evil because you are paying for endless wars, the BS fiat system, and funding the very undoing of any liberty we might have once had. 

Leave be out of it. I'm coerced into the system on pain of incarceration or death. That is immoral and therefore evil. You can pay all you want and let big daddy gubment soothe your soul. I am not so content with that having seen how much waste and evil it has allowed to spread. 

For me: no king but Christ. I do not want or need any government or governance.  
 You can critique the endless wars, which I do, and you can critique the fiat system, which I do, and still come to the conclusion that taxes are necessary. 

Here is a long but good example. 

You live in a neighborhood. The people of the neighborhood want to build a wall around their neighborhood. Everyone agrees that they want this and are willing to pay their fair share for the wall. Maybe you also want the wall, maybe you don’t, but it actually doesn’t matter in this example. You think to yourself “hmm, since they can’t coerce me to pay for this wall, I can choose to not pay my fair share and I can STILL be protected by this wall! This is great!” The people of the neighborhood come to you to collect your share for the wall and you resist saying that they can’t coerce you into paying for something you don’t want. The people of the neighborhood say, “well you can’t reap the benefits of something that you didn’t pay for, that’s not fair so we won’t allow it. Your options are pay your fair share or be kicked out of the neighborhood. You would most likely choose to pay your fair share and continue to enjoy the benefits of the society.

A private company could not provide this service. Who would the customer be, a single individual? That’s not fair to that individual. Why would they pay for something that would protect everyone? They would just build a wall around their house first. Do you coordinate with your fellow neighbors (forming a state 😂) and choose to all pay a bit of the bill? Congrats, you just invented the state and taxes. 
 If you want to live a completely isolated life outside of society with no human interaction at all, then yes. You do not need governance and do not need to pay taxes. That is a fair and valid point. 

If you want to join the rest of us over here in the neighborhood with the wall, where you can trade and exchange and act with your fellow man, we will gladly let you in, so long as you pay your fair share for the next project we build. 
 I don't need a Government to interact with people. WTF are you smoking?  
 But we kicked you out of the neighborhood because you didn’t help pay for the wall? What group of people is going to let you reap the benefits of things that you didn’t pay for? Nobody. You are not in any of the neighborhoods (remember this is an analogy for a state).

At this point you are subsistence farming for yourself because you are not enjoying the division of labor that comes with society. So I guess you can try to trade us some of your shitty potato’s you grew for yourself, but Joe down the street has a potato farm so we don’t really need to trade with you. 
 I'd help actively build the wall, but I'm not going to be forced to do it. I would not live with a group that believes coercion is correct. 

I'm capable of surviving on my own, but, I'm too useful to be kicked out of anywhere. *shrugs* I'll be happy on my own land.  
 But what if someone didn’t want to help build the wall? Same thing applies, are they forced to help, or forced to leave? 

When you live with your group of people who don’t believe in coercion, how would you coordinate with them to build a wall to protect yourselves? 
 Primarily, everyone is responsible for themselves and their families. Don't be a douchecanoe to your neighbors and things tend to work out pretty well.  
 Yeah, I can agree with that 100%. That’s still not an argument against taxes. 
 You also still haven't provided me with an argument for them, either, except: this list of things is better as a group so everyone needs to pay them whether they want to or not. I'll take ignorant freedom over well-thought out tyranny any day.  
 The argument I provided is valid though. Your group of ignorantly free people will just get taken over or die. Or the quality of life will be much much lower because you don’t live in a society with the division of labor. There is no way for you guys to collectively congregate and make group level decisions. 
 You speak like you've never built relationships with neighbors before. Geez, dude. If you have to force prior to do something, your ideas or you are at fault. I help run a big volunteer org. We sign millions of dollars worth of contracts with all sorts of groups. Sometimes those contracts are broken (not by us, mind you), and you just deal with it. We put on events in several locations across the world. We have never once thought that adding more government would make that easier. I know how to negotiate, follow, and lead, even under duress. (remember: I'm a veteran.) I'm willing to work with good people on good ideas to make lives better, and am, in fact, more capable of that than most. 

My quality of life is pretty awful right now. (My fault, honestly.) It would only get better if I didn't have the onerous burden of the state on my back. 
 No, I have built relationships with my neighbors. 

It is hard to imagine, and I don’t know for sure, but I suspect you would find it much more difficult for your org to do a lot of the things that it does without the state. And if not your org directly, then maybe indirectly because of the people you work with. 

And yeah, you say that you just deal with contracts being broken, but surely you can imagine a situation where there is a contract that gets broken that you can’t just eat the loss of. There need to be ways to resolve these without just resorting to violence. 
 OK, so, did you build relationships by pointing a gun at their head and saying "we need to get along or else?" No.

Nope. Dumb travel interferences, subsidization leading to less competition meaning higher costs and lower quality service, dealing with idiotoc and capricious tarrifs, limitations on transporting currency, the threat of federal prison for various non-violent "offenses," etc. That's not worth dealing with. Though, I don't mind a check when crossing boarders to another country. 

Yup. And it would suck, but I'd survive. Or not. Then it's not my worry anymore. I'd still rather not have da gubment involved.  
 None of what you just said is an argument against taxes. It’s all critiques of the government, how big it is, and what it’s doing. And that’s all valid. And, as a minarchist, I probably agree with you on a ton of that stuff. But you can critique all of that and still argue in favor of taxes. 
 Can you explain to me how taxation isn't coerced? Specifically in my case, where I do so not wish to pay taxes? 

Also: why coercively tax people? There are other ways to find things that don't require coercion. There was no income tax in the US until the Civil War, then it was repealed until 1913. 

I have never once agreed to any of this. Don't you dare claim that by participating in giving my permission. You don't ask the rape victim the same question because that's disgusting. Taxation is just as disgusting to me.  
 I feel like I have provided plenty of arguments against these points, but let’s try it a different way. 

Can you name for me a good or service that are you are willing to pay for? 
 No, you have not. You haven't addressed the moral implication of the state and taxes. You still wish to put a gun to my head to ensure that you get what you think is right and proper, and that cannot be either. 

Food, at least until I have my own land and can produce most of my own.  
 Can I recommend reading The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow? Civil societies existed without the state for thousands of years. Archaeological evidence proves some of them were without central authorities and still survived.  
 Sure. Sounds interesting. 
 Indeed, there was nothing resembling the monolithic state apparatus today in pre-historic societies, that were clan-oriented.

So, while the individual freedom was purportedly much higher, individual possibilities were otoh much lower because of the constant scarcity due to oow technology.

Also, in some societies (communities, rather), lethal violence was off the scale compared to current day society. 
 What I found interesting about the book is how super violent communities lived right next door to peaceful ones, both obviously choosing to live the opposite of what they saw next door and becoming more and more extreme in their opposition to the other. I think it has something to say about human nature and modern politics. 
 Unpopular opinion: this generation is too free with too many options created by free time due to technical advances. 

If I had to defend my position I would begin with personal experience. I often experience too many options as paralising. The lack of constraints on how I live and who I listen to as an authority is a difficult responsibility to bear. If I had to just get on with making my community a better place and spend more time in the home cooking and cleaning and less time pondering the possibilities it could be easier 🤷🏽‍♀️. I guess I just admitted to understanding why people feel they need the state to decide their morals for them. 

And for an example of how it is bad for society: Kids these days have time to wander whether or not they are the gender of their biological reality. They should be learning how to survive but instead confusion is being pushed on them in order to give them mental illnesses and make them easier to control... The people who come up with the lies should be working constructively to improve their own lot and that of their family and community rather than making this sh*t up and teaching it to children and adults through inclusion programs.  
 Personally, I think you're spot on. 👍👏 
 Who? I can’t tell who anyone is replying to anymore 😂 
 Lol. Sorry, I was talking to @Nobody. 
 I agree - too many inputs (constant datastream) while, especially for boys, there are too few "accepted" outputs to behavior and energy. 
 Just give them amphetamines, you heathen!  
 Drug them and make them more feminine... Like that's gonna help 🤷🏽‍♀️

Let boys be boys.  
 Yeah that second part right there is the fucking problem. 
 That's because if you have too many transactions to report to the IRS (e.g. zapping at will), it increases your chance of getting audited. Just having a complicated tax return is all it takes to get flagged, even if it's accurate. 
 Not to mention the IRS goes after the little guys because they are easier to plunder from.