On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Lennart Thornros <[email protected]> wrote:
> James, the solar system has to be recognized for many reasons and I have > heard nobody trying to exclude that. > You misunderstand what I mean by "prerequisite". When there is a frontier to be settled, the political economics of immigration are radically different. By "radically" I mean it literally in the sense of the root of the political economy in land rent during the opening of a frontier bears virtually no relationship to the political economy of a settled territory. People who deny the importance of economic rent in a closed-frontier setting are participants in the centralization of wealth and destruction of the middle class. This centralization of wealth creates the equivalent of welfare queens that enjoy the legal protections of their property rights without paying for those protections. Taxing income doesn't do it as income is not the same as wealth. The anarcho-capitalist model, if intellectually honest, will admit the equivalent of property insurance premiums paid to the entity that enforces property rights before it will admit anything akin to paying taxes on economic activity. That's why, subsequent to my successful work on launch service privatization (circa 1991) <http://www.oocities.org/jim_bowery/testimny.htm>, I advocated a net asset tax and unconditional basic income (circa 1992) <http://ota.polyonymo.us/others-papers/NetAssetTax_Bowery.txt>.
