Re:How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global...
by consentist on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @06:57PM
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> Government = bad
Because world has not seen a libertarian government yet.
> Taxes = theft
There are two arguments here. 1. Tax Amount. 2. Consent.
Most of the arugment against taxes from libertarins pov is the amount. Govts does provide a useful service but the pricing is too costly.
A libertarian may immigrate to a favourable country which gives best bang for the buck (for which somalia fails) and in process giving new govt the required consent to make taxation consistent with libertarianism.
> They don't get that monopoly on use of violence as ultimate arbitration is what allows society to exist in the first place.
You are thinking of anarcho-capitalism (a special case of libertarianism nonetheless) which I presume we are not talking about. Then libertarian govt still hold the monopoly on violence and only justifiable in very limited cases.
Because world has not seen a libertarian government yet.
> Taxes = theft
There are two arguments here. 1. Tax Amount. 2. Consent.
Most of the arugment against taxes from libertarins pov is the amount. Govts does provide a useful service but the pricing is too costly.
A libertarian may immigrate to a favourable country which gives best bang for the buck (for which somalia fails) and in process giving new govt the required consent to make taxation consistent with libertarianism.
> They don't get that monopoly on use of violence as ultimate arbitration is what allows society to exist in the first place.
You are thinking of anarcho-capitalism (a special case of libertarianism nonetheless) which I presume we are not talking about. Then libertarian govt still hold the monopoly on violence and only justifiable in very limited cases.