My tax money is arguing against me
It has been calculated, by the city of Oslo, that between five and ten billion NOK (equals 750 million-1.5 billion US$, 393-786 million £, or 587-1174 million €) are "withheld" from taxation.
A poll has shown that the number of people considering working "under the table" acceptable, is a growing number.
Of course, the city of Oslo is not happy with this. The city is now trying to gain support for the robbery (yes, taxation is robbery) through a propaganda campaign directed towards 10th grade school students (aged 15-16 years), where they teach them the importance of paying taxes and what taxes pay for.
I bet they don't teach them that everything useful financed by taxes could be provided by the market, and that the market solution is half as expensive and twice as good (Friedman's law).
I bet they don't teach them how tax money is used to control their lives and minds.
I am, sadly, paying taxes. I am, however, arguing for the complete abolition of the state, and thus arguing for abolishing taxation. I am doing so without robbing anyone.
Could the city government of Oslo have the decency not to use my money to spread propaganda that I do not agree with?
A poll has shown that the number of people considering working "under the table" acceptable, is a growing number.
Of course, the city of Oslo is not happy with this. The city is now trying to gain support for the robbery (yes, taxation is robbery) through a propaganda campaign directed towards 10th grade school students (aged 15-16 years), where they teach them the importance of paying taxes and what taxes pay for.
I bet they don't teach them that everything useful financed by taxes could be provided by the market, and that the market solution is half as expensive and twice as good (Friedman's law).
I bet they don't teach them how tax money is used to control their lives and minds.
I am, sadly, paying taxes. I am, however, arguing for the complete abolition of the state, and thus arguing for abolishing taxation. I am doing so without robbing anyone.
Could the city government of Oslo have the decency not to use my money to spread propaganda that I do not agree with?
Labels: Oslo, propaganda, taxation
posted by Johan R. Sjöberg at 5:03 PM
2 Comments:
Statism in it's current form can arguably be traced back to the Hegelian influenced Prussian approach to statist education (indoctrination) in keeping with the Hegelian view of the state as the ultimate arbiter of reason. Western statist education, at least, has developed largely from this Prussian model. Any changes to it are part of a feedback mechanism whereby those educated under the state devise ever more insidious schemes to mould the minds of the next generation, in ways most beneficial to the state project (i.e. it's own expansion of scope and power).
Although clearly inate human reasoning abilities and unique social situations allow some (e.g. ancaps) to escape the grip of this indoctrination, it is not clear how the strong political motivation for it's continuation can be countered. Again arguably, it is only when the statist stranglehold on education is broken does liberty become an achieveable goal.
Unfortunately I see no easy way to this. It is the old question of how to get from here to there, 'there' looks great, but what is the path we take from here? Any thoughts?
That's the problem. We can't get from "here" to "there" unless people stop supporting the system - there are small signs of it, like a growing tolerance of working "under the table" and a growing black market for smuggled goods, e.g. cigarettes and alcohol.
The day people stop supporting the state, it will go away (or at least start dying), but it will take time, and the state will fight for survival (in a way, that's what it's doing right now).
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