Can Taxes Be Done Without?
As taxes continue to noticeably rise nearly everywhere, popular Youtube users such as Stefan Molyneux and countless others including steemits own, anaracho-capitalist Scandinavian life (which has a great blog entry in it) have opened the question of its purpose and whether we should have them in the first place.
In my most neutral opinion, taxes in of themselves wouldn't necessarily be a noticeable problem nowadays if the government was realistically wrangled and reduced by realistic measure in the first place.
In the 50's for example, private manufacturing and low immigration measures reigned supreme. This mindset of small government and free market helped to establish places like America as world superpowers today. It wasn't until policy was enacted by subsequent (((political classes))) that government increased and such centralized institutions like the (((Federal Reserve)).
As long as we wish to continue receiving healthcare, police services, fire fighters, roads, public facilities, education, and military to protect us...yeah, we're gonna need some taxes.
Point taken, I think the bigger question is how and when to put our foot down on them
I wouldn't be so fast to blame a specific class/group for the current issues we're facing, as there are many factors contributing to the current climate. I don't believe that deportations will fix the problem. Robotics are in the process of taking over most jobs - within a generation I expect a large shift to occur with most mid-level positions. I believe that countries need to begin researching universal income as humans are outworked by machines, or we'll be pitted against each other over shrinking resources.
Oh im not exclusively blaming a group, im just putting ((them)) to the attention of people that otherwise don't know.
The shift of mid level positions has already happened if you look at US job reports which skew the numbers and include in sourced/outsourced jobs. Much of the population in the US for example is on food stamps to SURVIVE. Look at the cost of a house these days, its unaffordable millenials are living with their parents or going into massive debt.
The problem isn't just that machines are overworking us, that is still in the process and can also be changed by policy if it gets to an increasingly worse level. The overwhelming problem is that governments are succeeding in finding excuses to tax us and depress the economy. Trust me, MANY countries could turn around and become their own resource superpowers in their own right if they stopped following the United Nations at every go, the problem there is they rely too much from outside (imports).
If you come from the perspective like me that debt is inescapable and that immigration is too much a burden culturally (terrorism/ethnic) and certaintly economically then you can see my point.
Unless you can give me a valid argument for how to afford universal income and how that would be better you got nothing. Free stuff isn't free, nothing is free.