The State and its Taxes; an Evil and Unnecessary Institution of Economic and Political Slavery
“One can’t avoid Taxes and Death”, that’s what we are taught, by the State of course. Let us agree with Death part of the statement and examine the Taxes whilst we are still alive. Death was here long before some one was taxed for the first time. Taxes only came to existence few thousand years ago, primarily in the form of human slavery. Its journey from slavery to modern income tax encompasses few hundred types such as property tax, goods and service tax, salt tax, health tax etc. They all are curse on us and they take away part of our life under the threat of coercion. That’s why the State as its driving force is a predominately an anti-social institution.
The common man, under the influence of mass education and mass media cannot imagine living without taxes and governments but when a man of integrity receives a tax bill, or a law is passed restricting use of his native language or his religious beliefs, a part of him is murdered. He doesn’t want to say yes and he can’t say no. When someone, a group or class rules over others, including him, he feels it like a condition of slavery.
Human material needs can only be met by two distinct ways. One is through economic means like a farmer growing a crop or a factory worker producing some goods. Secondly through political (parasitic) means, taxing the producers by using the state power to do so. The political one is by far an easy and more desirable option for many of us.
When we study the origin of any state, we find the evidence of conquest from the defeated owners of the former State and seizure from current economic producers under the pretext of taxes. Every country has a limited quantity of human social power. Any power and wealth that we see in the hands of the State was basically taken away from its citizens sometime in the past. One can trace down every single penny in the State’s coffers to a working human being.
Winner’s reward can have many forms. In the times of Genghis Khan it could be women, cattle or horses; In the times of Alexander the Great it was gold and silver coins but these days, in the times of Bush and Obama, it is mainly energy resources such as Oil and Gas. Sometime it is simply a contract of future sales under the terms and condition of the winning side. A State cannot exist without economic exploitation of some sort. Anyone who controls a state, even for a short while, can and does uses it for the benefit of himself, his family, his supporting group or the class it represents and Nothing Else.
Total power in the hands of any society and its Sate is pretty much constant. What one has the other side is deprived of it. The other characteristic of a State is that it has to keep increasing its power all the time to remain in power. In that process, it accumulates disproportionally high power and not enough social power to hold its weight. At that point, it also becomes extremely complex in its composition, and then it has to collapse.
Institution of State was never designed for the benefit of all It is simply there to protect the winner from the loser group or class. Abolish or curtail any future threat to its authority from internal and external powers. Minister of Interior, Home Minister, Foreign Minister and Secretary of State are not just fancy designations. They have a specific role to play. They are slaves of the State too. Most of the job is already cut out for them when they take charge. That’s why millions of people feel disheartened when they don’t find any substantial change in a country’s foreign and internal policies with the change of governments within the same State. That’s why commander-in-chief Obama could not even order the closure of Guantanamo Bay prison, let alone shutting down over one hundred army bases around the globe. Not until the Empire State seizes to be an Empire State.
All States, like all businesses collapse one day when cost of maintaining them exceeds the return on their investment. Never think that a State can defend you from any foreign aggression, it can merely force its citizens to defend it. A State uses its full force of guns and boots to keep its monopolistic control over its market territory, its participants and keep away other competing foreign state monopolies. It can only exist as a monopoly and no other way. That’s why when a territory of any state wants its independence to break away, it is classified as a separatist movement and crushed with full State force.
One can bring a government to justice but State is always above law, until it is gone. So you have to either capture it for your class benefit or dismantle it for the benefit of all. Think twice when you pay your next tax bill or vote for electing someone to rule over you. Each tax dollar and each vote transfer a part of your power to the State. At the same time discard this suggestion as rubbish if you happen to be in the ruling elite political group of your State.
Mr Dhillon, You are full of shit !
ReplyDeleteTax system has nothing to do with slavery or slaves! Origins of tax system started has to do with intercontinental trade.I can get into the details of that as well but it's gona get too long. Interestingly, the United States started with a residence-based tax system. The first income tax enacted by congress was passed in 1861 to help fund Civil War efforts, only taxed citizens abroad on their income from U.S. investments; overseas income was specifically excluded.
If you go back to the history of taxation, it was first introduced in Egypt; During the various reins of the Egyptian Pharaohs tax collectors were known as scribes. During one period the scribes imposed a tax on cooking oil. To insure that citizens were not avoiding the cooking oil tax scribes would audit households to insure that appropriate amounts of cooking oil were consumed and that citizens were not using leavings generated by other cooking processes as a substitute for the taxed oil.
Then came greece with minor improvements in the system; In times of war the Athenians imposed a tax referred to as eisphora. No one was exempt from the tax which was used to pay for special wartime expenditures. The Greeks are one of the few societies that were able to rescind the tax once the emergency was over. When additional resources were gained by the war effort the resources were used to refund the tax.
Then came the Roman Empire; The earliest taxes in Rome were customs duties on imports and exports called portoria.
And then came England; The first tax assessed in England was during occupation by the Roman Empire.
It seems as if you are more interested in US taxation system, so here are the origins of taxation the the US; COLONIAL AMERICA
Colonists were paying taxes under the Molasses Act which was modified in 1764 to include import duties on foreign molasses, sugar, wine and other commodities. The new act was known as the Sugar Act.Because the Sugar Act did not raise substantial revenue amounts, the Stamp Act was added in 1765. The Stamp Act imposed a direct tax on all newspapers printed in the colonies and most commercial and legal documents.
where did you get this wise idea of slavery?? When you do not have the basic knowledge on this subject, why discuss it just for the sake of discussion?
Secondly, if there was no mass education and mass media, you would not be sitting in Australia today..
Thirdly, if you wana speak your naive language and enjoy your religious beliefs, you have your native country. Nobody forced you to go to Australia and complain! People like you make me sick!
Your well wisher!!!!!!!!!
Hi Funny Jenny, Thanks for your comments. Your examples are very supportive of my post but it seems that you are a loyal part of the State machinery and it hurts when someone speaks against your badge of honour. By the way I can't go back to my country of birth as some people with stars and stripes on their shoulder with full backing of that State don't like my presence on their territory.
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ReplyDeleteI'm getting an impression that either you failed to chew on Mr. Dhillon's post sufficiently, or to reread your own post before posting it. Either of the two could've saved you from posting what actually supports, every bit, what Mr. Dhillon is trying to say.
As for the shit part, I guess, it's only an indication that one has been able to digest thoroughly what has gone inside, an admirable quality these days! It's the undigested stuff that is the real poison.
After our FB discussion, I mistakenly felt that you were veering towards anarchism. After reading this post, however, I think you are in the Reaganomics camp.
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Dear Bhupinder, not sure in which direction the thoughts are veering but I thought I freed myself from various Camps. What is Reganomics by the way?
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaganomics
ReplyDeleteYou might have freed yourself from the various camps, but the camps won't let you go away ! :-)
It seems Reagan were looking in the right direction to start with but look where he ended up, increasing military spending. He was probably as free from his State as we are from ours.
ReplyDeleteWhen any individual/group/union or political party demands some incentive from the government, be it a subsidy, a grant, new school, new hospital, increased wages or increase in minimum support price for their produce, they are essentially saying to the government: Tax another group of citizens and after eating substantial share of it, hand out the left over to them.
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