I feel like I'm in crazytown when I express distress about taxation - literally people forcibly taking away your property - and ppl act like I'm the crazy one. Sure, you could argue that this forcible theft is worth it, and I'll respect that, but it's still not crazy to be upset.
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What would be a fair price to pay for your use of public infrastructure?
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Not 45% of my total income
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not even the same because mafias are not accountable to society and government is. There are checks and balances in government that limit what it can do along with remediation and arbitration through a judicial system.
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Who do you think fills the void when a central government is weak and ineffective? Organized groups of people advancing their goals with force. The mafia, yakuza, warlords in Somalia and Afghanistan, etc.
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Right on, the reason the mafia is bad is because it is not at all accountable to the people it extracts resources from and can act arbitrarily in its self-interest. But it can function as a peacekeeping force in the absence of an actual legitimate government.
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You'd be paying to some group no matter what, better it is the group that is accountable to the larger population, at least in part. In your profession, without government pressure, you'd be beholden to a pimp. Sex trafficking would be the norm, rather than the underground.
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That’s precisely the point - so the mafia doesn’t get to rule. Don’t pay taxes - don’t have government - rule of law changes into natural law, which is always ‘strongest wins’.
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People seem to be misunderstanding the point of this mafia analogy (and the point of analogies, generally). It simply shows that being provided services is ALONE insufficient to establish consent.
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Mafias and gangs arise to fill the void left when government fails to do its job.
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