LinuxLingam wrote:
> dear sanjeev,
>
> thanks again, for your insights and responses.
> so your responses confirm what i had been thinking: taxation in
> absolute terms is supposed to be on the principals you
> mentioned, but the overall reality forces of democracy,
> uruguay, gatt, WTO, bring in a 'reality-distortion field'
> anyways.
An ecnomic-distrortion, yes.
> so stripped off the economic mumbo jumbo and emperical methods
> of implementation, it boils down to someone's priviliged powers
> (sovereignity) versus another's (voting power, WTO, MNC
> lobbying through trade organizations, etc...)
Yes, although "sovereignity" is non-negotiable (if it was negotiable,
it would have to deferto some rules, and then it wouldn't be
sovreign). The WTO, or the UN, is a case where India, out of its
"own, free, goodwill and beliefs" has decided to agree with another
party. Any guns used are not mentioned in the text ;-)
> and whatever the
> result of these balance of powers, is the yoke we carry as
> tax-payers. am i correct?
YES!!! You have got it. Tax is a yoke, and we pay it because the
State has guns and we do not. There is nothing _intrinsically_ nice
or not nice about them. We pay because "I said so". If the reason
the tax was levied by the state seems reasonable, that is a bonus, but
it really is not material to my payment.
--
Sanjeev
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