[p2p-research] Government taxation and alternative currencies

[Michel Bauwens]

this document is a valuable history of mutual aid before the welfare state:

http://p2pfoundation.net/Reinventing_Civil_Society

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <
dante.monson at gmail.com> wrote:

> update...
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Anthony Di Franco <di.franco at aya.yale.edu>
> Date: Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:05 PM
> Subject: Re: Government taxation and alternative currencies
> To: agile-banking at googlegroups.com
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>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 08:14, Dante-Gabryell Monson
> <dante.monson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Anthony Schexnaildre <
> apschexn at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >>  It's simply the fact that the Queen only accepts the payment of taxes
> in
> >> her own money.
> >
> > How would it work if we used an asymetrical exchange / donations based
> > system, earning reputation ( and not debt ) ?
> > I am not a lawyer, but my guess is that reputation units would be
> difficult
> > to tax.
> > And if it does get taxed, perhaps a solution could be to be individually
> > insolvable in monetary terms,
> > while having use value infrastructure to whom we contribute owned by a
> form
> > of commons, under potentially a not for profit status ?
> > Does this sound similar to the way some religious orders can operate ?
>
> In addition to religious orders, mutual aid societies were entities
> that, before the nationalization / corporatization of the social
> safety net in the New Deal, provided such a commons of benefits,
> including a form of health insurance, and have a non-profit category
> for them still in the US tax code.  The Amish faith(s?) act as both
> religions and mutual aid societies, and are exempt from many federal
> taxes, as well as from the proposed US health care legislation's
> requirements.
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