Paying Taxes in the UK

There is an ethical issue with paying tax. The idea of paying tax is great. Paying for services and to help each other out sound wonderful but this “ideal” is far removed from reality. Paying taxes props up the state. It is the only thing that allows the state to exist. We pay our taxes or face attack by state apparatus. Pay or we (the established authority through force of power) throw you in prison. Your assets will be forcefully seized.

In a world of austerity we can no longer pretend that at least some of our taxes go to services and helping each other out. It now just goes to the shit. Bombing kids in Yemen. Protecting rich pederasts. A puppet show of politicians getting paid to do nothing having convinced the population “it takes time”, as they quantitative ease the wealth out of your pocket.

Paying taxes allows the state to exist. All the big companies and institutions destroying our world and diminishing our living standards could not exist without state handouts. Paying taxes is paying for global warming, and global shittening in every direction (fat people shouldn't exist, cancer rates, Richard Brason, mental health, people starving on our streets).

We can be forced into submission by paying taxes or we can build our own apparatus free from state intervention. We can design new economic systems based on cooperation rather than competition. No one should be forced to compete with others. The only person you need to compete with is yourself.

We don't need a state. We need new ideas.

@RiskDebonair
Irish Writer, Poet, & Lover