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Free Liberal: Coordinating towards higher values

Free Liberal

Coordinating towards higher values

A Response to Capozzi's "Fair Use?"

Capozzi's "Fair Use?" post is linked here.

Alaska is a small population, resource rich, state entity where most of the resource (oil in this case), is state owned as well. Ditto Norway and its North Sea oil deposits. However you have to admit these two
examples are a rarity. Ones that are also Liberal Democracies are even rarer. Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE states fit that bill too (except for the Liberal Democracy part), but they don't share the wealth very fairly there. So I don't see that concept as much of a model for the rest of the world's societies. Especially ones with non-natural resource based economy's like today's America.

Physical or natural resources that are by historical accident or political arrangement privately owned are an entirely different matter. Unlike oil, intellectual property, practical or professional services, or other non-resource forms of wealth creation can be claimed only by those that create them. And so other than by violence-enforced confiscation (taxes), this non-physical resource created wealth can't be collected or redistributed by the state, "fairly" or not .So the burden of proof is on you to show how could it be otherwise.

Use taxes are the fairest. As a non-interventionist why should I have to subsidize a huge military force maintained for foreign intervention? If I opposed abortion why should I have to pay for them through my taxes? If I am childless why must I accept parents receiving "tax breaks" (a slippery slope of temptation for the powerful and the greedy), that childless "tax donors" don't get? Where is the fairness in that? Nothing in the Fair Tax scheme strikes me as fair at all really.

Remember this: Behind everything that a state does or commands (whether by decrees, acts of legislatures, referendum or whatever else), are men with rifles who will use whatever force is needed, (up to and including killing you) if you don't comply with the state's dictates. Denying this reality of statism is what is really utopian here.

-Ali Massoud



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