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[quote user="Spideynw"] Don't all taxes, at some point, disincentivize labor? Why work to buy things if the sales tax is 1000%? Or why work to buy property if property taxes are 1000%? [/quote] Why stop at labor? If a tax on property reverts back to the labor associated with the property, by the same logic, it also reverts back to the
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[quote user="ravochol"] ^Voluntarism depends entirely on your theory of property rights. If each man owns himself and has a right to his own labor, then taxation is involuntary. What does "having a right to your own labor" have to do with a land tax? A land tax is not a tax on labor... [/quote] You are right to say that a land tax
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[quote user="ravochol"] @ Jorge If you don't think a tax can ever be helpful though, explain parking meters. Because parking meters "tax" parking on a roadside, no one parks on the taxed roadside for very long, meaning many people can go shopping down town and find a parking spot -because the parking meter creates a big disincentive
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Is the word disutility interchangeable with cost? If so, then surely there is a cost to labor, namely, the next best option foregone.
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[quote user="ravochol"] When you think of a tax as a disincentive to a behavior, it becomes clear that not all taxes are created equal, because not all behavior is created equal. [/quote] I would like to take exception to the above statement--simply as an exercise in friendly discourse! My argument is that the OP is wrong to think of taxation
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Thanks for the link Skyler. A beautiful true-life entrepreneurial story! Sniff, sniff. If I was one of them I wouldn't want to let anyone know what I was doing though. The Tax Man watcheth.
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Slavery is illegal in the USA except when the state is the perpetrator. Quick example: all employers in the USA are required by law to collect tax money from their employees and deliver that money to the IRS. They have no choice in the matter, nor do they receive any compensation for the compulsory service they are providing. That is institutionalized
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The government is good at one thing...it knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say "see if it weren't for the government you wouldn't be able to walk!" Harry Browne
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You have a lot of good questions there Live Free. I for one don't have any answers except to say that if we are going to wait for the state to solve the immigration problem, we will be waiting a long time.
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You mean kinda' like this? http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Climbing_Into_Space_By_The_Rope_999.html