On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 04:50 +0300, Jouni Valkonen wrote: > In pure and ideal basic income economy, all tax revenues are returned > to the markets boosting purchasing power of consumers, therefore > economic burden of taxes is zero and no one has no economic reasons to > oppose taxes. > > —Jouni
[Politics will degrade the quality of the dialog here.] You don't have a consistent moral theory. Therefore you throw morality out of the window - in the name of morality - so that you can build 'your' perfect society. But it's not perfect, because if it were, then there would be no reason to threaten those who disagree with violence. A consistent moral theory will start with an axiom that all people have an equal moral status, with no slaves and no masters. There is no other way to build a consistent universal moral theory. But when you start with equality as an axiom, then you'll quickly find that taxation is theft because you're giving one group of people the moral power to use violence to take from everyone they choose. This is the flaw with democracy and the reason it has not been able to survive on a large scale. Small countries, like Denmark, can tolerate it much easier than large ones where accountability is much farther removed from the people abused by such power. Craig
