Zenaan Harkness: > Beginner anarchist alert. Wanting to get a better understanding of > possible outcomes. > > On 11/1/15, intelemetry <[email protected]> wrote: >> Democracy is the tyranny of the majority, and assassination politics >> is dangerous in that regard when they are coupled. Private arbitration >> agreements with private security forces wherein mobility has >> reciprocal agreements (similar to current travel) seems more reasonable. > > How would we handle road-building rent-seekers (i.e. those who would > collect tax/ rent for travel) - i.e. at the moment in Australia banks > give loans to private companies to build roads, which by illegal > (unconstitutional) contracts, massive rents/ taxes over many decades, > are collected from the population?
This is called a 'subsidy.' https://mises.org/library/snare-government-subsidies https://mises.org/library/robbery-subsidy > > How would the idea of "all have a right to travel anonymously and > absolutely freely (free from tax, free from arbitrary punishment)" be > manifested in a political anarchy country? > > How do we manifest a community wide idea of free travel (implying a > majority interest in infrastructure built and provided at cost) with > the freedom of "rent seekers" and "land owners/ infrastructure > builders" to "freely engage in construction and contract with > travelers upon the roads"? > > Is this a prisoner's dilemma? > > Although all our roads in Australia were free from "all evil tolls" > for much of a century, the rent seekers corrupted our politicians with > much greese, and now road tolls pop up all over the country. How would > political anarchism not "degrade" to the power of financial corruption > in a similar way as our demoncratic governments? > > --- > In Australia, our "democratic powers/ goverment" have facilitated > illegal contracts and multi decade rent seekers to tax the population > on roads already paid for by the government. > > Notwithstanding that the jetsons era may make the question of roads > per se less relevant over time, this question in my mind arises > regarding political anarchism and what is termed 'natural monopolies', > in this specific thread, roads. > > The Great Charter, or Magna Carta/ Charter, proscribes that there > shall "be no evil tolls" - which means no travel checkpoints requiring > fee payment, i.e. tax collection at point of passing, commonly today > called "road tolls" (at least in Australia). This was to protect > merchants against the taxing intention, and it is a given that this > also includes those not engaging in commerce but still traveling. > > Here in Australia not only do we have the present day continuation of > the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights (and many other > Imperial Statutes) active within the jurisdictions of our states > (although most people are not aware of this, the courts and > legislation are aware of it) we also have Section 92 of our federal > constitution which states "trade commerce and intercourse [travel] > amongst the states, shall be absolutely free", which interpretation is > open to some debate in political circles despite how it reads to the > common man. > > In Australia the Imperial Statutes are firmly entrenched thanks to: > - The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act (our federal > constitution) which invokes the Crown; > - The Imperial Acts Application Act (respectively, in each state, such > as New South Wales, Victoria, etc); > - The Australia High Court (our highest court) rulings of Mabo and in > particular Mabo 2 (I think 1999). > > Despite what ought be protection, our demoncratic parliaments have > sold our roads to the highest bidder, which in our case is nearly > always Macquarie Bank. > > Zenaan >
