Fishlore
Silver Member
No, I'm saying that my ownership is not absolute, that it is a contingent possession which goverment has the power to reduce or confiscate entirely. Of course, we expect the government to exercise its power according to law as created by our democratically elected Congress. However, "my" money in "my" bank account is a creation of the government, to be acquired and disposed of as the government, through its laws, sees fit.Calling obedience to the law "servile idiocy" is a feel-good statement that really takes us nowhere. Government isn't some bizarre third party that interferes in your life, it is the controlling principle created by society as part of the context within which your life is lived. All those precious liberties granted by the government are sustained by society. "No man is an island."
Within this context, your possession of "your" money is not absolute; indeed, nothing you possess is absolute nor are any of your other rights and liberties absolute. The American libertarian notion of the individual and his rights is mere solipsism.
So are you saying that you don't own the money in your bank account? It shouldn't go on your balance sheet?