From: Terry Donaghe (tdonaghe@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Dec 07 1998 - 06:07:04 MST
---Ken Meyering <ken@define.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Until our government quits stealing our money and allows the free
> > market to provide the best possible education, we will remain an
> > ignorant country dominated by Psychic phone lines, professional
> > wrestling and scientology. :)
>
> The "government" will quit stealing our money when netizens as a
> whole agree to simply stop paying taxes. Here comes another Federal
> tax cycle in the U.S. I propose that we all simply stop paying on
> the same day, and that will be a sign of consensus.
>
> I believe the net has enough brainpower to enforce its will, these
> days. Someone just needs to set the date, so it's a class action.
>
> -------------------
> ken@define.com
>
I agree that eventually, the net along with other technologies will
make the government more or less obsolete, however, as long as they
have guns and we don't have a nonviolent way to resist (if we resist
violently they can escalate to the point where we can't compete -
tanks, missles, jets, etc.) the government can force us to pay taxes.
Perhaps what we need is some sort of elaborate bartering system for
doing business over the net that couldn't be taxed.... I dunno...
==
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Terry Donaghe: terry@donaghe.com
Individual, Anarcho-Capitalist, Environmentalist, Transhumanist, Mensan
The Millennium Bookshelf: <http://www.donaghe.com/mbookshelf.htm>
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