[p2p-research] Request: Peer to Peer and Human Evolution

[Michel Bauwens]

I'll be creating a tax section on the wiki today,

Michel

2010/2/23 Kevin Carson <free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com>

> On 2/19/10, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm still of two minds regarding internet taxation, but first hand, I
> don't
> > see why internet companies should be excempted from contributing to the
> > public good.
>
> As an anarchist, I can't say I'm in favor of taxation of any kind.
> But so long as a state exists that's funded by coercive taxation, the
> exemption of any favored sector of the economy has exactly the same
> practical effect as if the state started with a base taxation rate of
> zero and then imposed a punitive tax only on those firms not engaged
> in favored forms of activity.
>
> OTOH, one of the benefits of the emerging network society is its
> opacity to the state, and its ability to function outside the
> regulatory framework that creates artificial scarcity.  I see a
> darknet economy of networked, encrypted currency transactions, in
> which patents and copyrights are ignored, and with its own
> certification and authenticating mechanisms, as the basis for the
> post-state society.
>
>
> > Generally speaking, what makes sense to me is a radical overhaul of the
> tax
> > philosophy away from taxing productive activities, especially labour, and
> > replace it with taxing financial transacitons, especially the speculative
> > ones (tobin tax etc..)
>
> So long as a tax-funded state exists, I think the geolibertarians are
> right on the mark:  by far the least harmful forms of taxation are
> those that fall either on negative externalities or economic rents
> (land value taxation, severance fees for minerals, carbon taxes,
> etc.).
>
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