Name a particular tax.
Property tax.
The only one worth following is the one who leads... not the one who pulls; for it is not the direction that condemns the puller, it is the rope that he holds.
Income tax.
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Sales tax.
Thumb tax...
...Poll tax.
What is required before you owe property tax?
An institution of aggression.
How about inflation? Many people call it a tax.
Gas tax.
Putting that aside for the moment, what else? What is required of you as a so-called victim of property taxes to make you subject to property taxes?
What is required of you as a so-called victim of property taxes to make you subject to property taxes?
So now you're changing the question?
You must own property before it can be taxed. Then the state chooses what to tax you on. (land, realestate, etc)
Kelvin...haven't you read any Plato??
I havent. Should i?
Council tax
Value added tax
TV license
Well if you want to avoid this guy trolling you, it'd be beneficial. This thread is clearly an attempt to trap someone through Socratic questioning. You just gave him the answer he wants. Don't play along with his little 'game'.
What is required of me as a victim? For someone to commit a wrong against me, obviously.
First I said so-called victim. Anyway, to make the question direct, who receives a particular property tax bill?
The person that recieves the bill is the person that is being taxed?
Socratic questioning is only a "trap" for people who pretend to have knowledge that they do not.
If you just blindly give the answers the questioner wants, then the latter can claim baseless victories. This is what we see in most of Plato's dialogues, since the author could of course set it up how he liked.
Anyway, to make the question direct, who receives a particular property tax bill?
The party taxed.
Note that government property is illegitimate.
And that person being taxed, why has the government selected them for property taxation? (serious answers please)
why has the government selected them for property taxation?
To get money from them.
I was asking about the selection process, not the underlying goal.
Selection for what?
Property taxation.
Is there a selection procress?
'Men do not change, they unmask themselves' - Germaine de Stael
Oh, because legislation has been passed to that effect.
I imagine there is.
Well if the selection process is in your own imagined scenario, how on earth are we supposed to know what it is??
They were selected because simple ownership of real estate is something only free men can have.
That has a ring to it. I like it.
Exactly! If it is imagined..can I be a race car driver?
They were selected because fee simple ownership of real estate is something only free men can have.
Time to define your terms Luminar.