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Originally Posted by Yakk
You where born in a house. This gives you no rights over the house, you where just born there:
Fixed taxes, or head taxes, are analagous to slave labour. Marginal taxes are far less analagous. If you had to pay 500$/year, period, that would be (effectively) slave labour.
You have to realize, all the land has been claimed. You have to justify your existance. Existance isn't a free lunch. If you wish to no longer exist, feel free.
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Well, first of all let me preface this with the understanding that the list of facts in my original post are from a fictional unwilling subject and are simply meant to encourage further discussion. I am not an anarchist, at least not yet, LOL. That being said let's go on from there.
You say I have no rights over the house I was born in and given to me by my parents. I guess they were under the false impression that they owned it (and the land) to give. But if I refuse to pay tribute (property taxes) to the current polititians in power, they will take it from me, kick me out and auction it off. So I guess you are right even though I think I have every right to stay here they don't unless I pay them what they want this year.
I have to eat so if I grow crops on my land and sell what I don't eat I have to pay tribute or they will throw me in jail. They will only let me keep a portion of what my labor has wrought. I feel like a sharecropper which is just about like slavery.
You say I have to justify my existence but why? My existence is justified by the fact I was born. I am not asking for anything from the ruling class but they are asking plenty from me and threatening to imprison me if I don't comply. Why can't they just leave me be to live in peace instead of forcing me to work for them? They have the same approximate physical makeup as me, let them work for themselves.
Even if I wished to pay a share of the road cost the corrupt polititians have rigged the costs to be hundreds of times higher because of all the kickbacks and nepotism involved. I didn't ask for the road to be put between me and my neighbors and I have no other way of getting there now that the polititian's brother in law has built this million dollar concrete path. If the overpriced road wasn't in my way my neighbors and I would get togather and build our own when we had time. Besides it was here long before I was born and had no say in it.