From: Samael (Samael@dial.pipex.com)
Date: Fri Dec 11 1998 - 09:44:16 MST
-----Original Message-----
From: mark@unicorn.com <mark@unicorn.com>
To: extropians@extropy.com <extropians@extropy.com>
Date: 11 December 1998 16:38
Subject: Re: Final Challenge to Socialists
>Samael [Samael@dial.pipex.com] wrote:
>>You contend that taxes are theft.
>>I contend that not paying taxes is theft.
>
>How can not paying taxes be theft if property doesn't exist? This is
>absurd; you can't have a rational discussion with someone whose beliefs are
>as inconsistent as yours and most of the other socialists around here.
You can replace 'theft' with 'denial of access' if you like.
I was attempting to use a similar tone of language.
How about:
Everything is by default accessible to everyone. People define objects as
'belonging to them'. They then deny other people access to these objects.
This is wrong. However, to encourage people to produce more efficient
objects and more of them and to allow for the most efficient production of
goods, they ought to be rewarded for producing them/copntributing to their
production. Therefore they are allowed to deny people access to a
percentage of these objects. The rest are accessible to everyone.
You would call the bits accessible by everyone 'tax' and the bits you are
allowed to keep 'property'.
Samael
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