sakinago
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Yes, as long as you believe that people own their labor. To not believe that someone owns their labor means would mean slavery is morally ok.
Does government have the ability to tax, yes, only by consent of the governed. Unfortunately nowadays people do not understand natural rights and why they are important. With rights also comes responsibility, you cannot separate the two. People want the rights but not the responsibility. Nowadays people believe rights are not innate, but that they are granted by government. They want government to take the responsibility part away. Government does a shitty job of that, especially the bigger and more diverse the country is. Why? It’s the old lesson that comes from the Tower of Babel. The higher the tower, the further away the people from the top are to the people at the bottom. It’s an unsustainable ecosystem. Ours is both big, and hands down the most diverse in human history. The only way to get a system that big and diverse is to make a small system that works, and then scale that small system up. Thus, we get our constitutional republic, based on the rights of the individual, where the Fed was supposed to be relatively insignificant, to the individual but that individual had more say in their local government, then that was scaled to the state, then scaled to the Fed. All this with an emphasis on not drawing power away from the individual, whether that be from state or federal government, or whatever the majority of the voting population believes. Pure democracy is it’s own tyranny.
Do you really trust this government, the same government that misspent over 1 trillion dollars in the past 10 years, with even more responsibility and a whole shit ton more money? When I say misspent, I don’t mean wasteful spending on ridiculous shit. Misspent means they lost the money, like in double payments made accidentally, payments to the wrong places, or just straight up losing track of money that type of thing. It took Apple how many years to be the first trillion dollar company in history...and our government misspent as much money that the richest company in human history in a matter of 10 years. Yea I’d say government is a very shitty vessel for solving our problems. Individuals on the other hand are very good at it. I’m typing on a device that would’ve been considered a supercomputer in the 90s...and it fits in my palm. It’s tech making the entire globe richer, giving the impoverished worldwide access to the internet where they can participate in things like commerce and education they could not have dreamed of 10 years ago. Made by the same company that took 40 some years to be worth what our government lost track of in 10.
