Everybody acting like this general level of taxation is normal, inevitable or good makes me feel like I'm living in crazytown. It's pretty similar to everybody just sending their kids off to school and being like yep, this is going to be good for them
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What total fraction of income do you think a normal/good tax system would charge it's citizens
Honestly, aside from some extraordinarily glaring issues, I think we're roughly in the right space
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I think generally most of what the government does should be privatized. I don't think it should be involved at all in healthcare, social security, or welfare. I think taxes should be the minimum possible to sustain a tiny government that handles mostly just law and military.
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Reminds when catholic churched owned 50%+ of land in Europe in 15th century. And then printing press took away the monopoly power of church on knowledge.
Currently governments tax 50%+ of income of middle class. #bitcoin is taking away the monopoly to print and seize money 🤔
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I’m curious because I don’t know but is there an example of a successful libertarian state?
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It depends on what you mean; early America was closer to libertarian in some aspects and ended up being pretty successful.
Also not a perfect example but there's always en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_W
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You're correct. This level of taxation is abnormally low. Also, recent events suggest privatizing the power grid is a bad idea.
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