RE: Bitcoin Map shows the world slowly unfucking itself from central banking by matrjoschka

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bitcoin · @matrjoschka · Oct 25 '17 (edited)

Thanks for reading. And some interesting thoughts. I wonder: Do you think a sufficiently awake, crypto-based country would need to collect taxes?

Apparently this is the current situation showing where US taxes go:

![fy2017piegraph.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmPNo7XosfdMbiQ5EqsX3LqBTDAEjbfrsP2b4PJCddGECb/fy2017piegraph.jpg)
*Source: https://www.warresisters.org/where-your-income-tax-money-really-goes-wrl-pie-chart-flyer-fy2017*

Looking at this graph, almost half of taxes are used to commit violent acts against existing violence, or threaten new violence. Then there is a segment used for healthcare (diseases mostly caused by the social environment created by a dominator-predator social system). Then there's the cost of education (mostly conditioning to ensure that children accept the current system). Then there's the cost of running the administrative system that oversees the whole mess.

Hopefully as we go post-bank, we go post-tax.

👍 scipio, ryansmith

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@scipio · Oct 25 '17

Yes, I do think it is a good thing to pay taxes, especially if it is spent on public utilities. How would roads be built and maintained without tax incomes?

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@matrjoschka · Oct 25 '17 (edited)

Good points :) I don't have answers... Just thoughts.

Roads: Not sure if it was ever fair to pay for road infrastructure through income tax since it's effectively subsidizing car use and perhaps the destruction of alternative transportation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy

I half agree with the idea of some public utilities being supported via tax, but even with hospitals or schools I see a problem: Who decides what a schools teaches? Isn't it dangerous for those in political power to fund the 'education' system?

And where is the incentive to look seriously at modern dis-ease (disease) when the symptoms of dis-ease (disease) are treated by government-funded 'doctors' to maintain an existing flawed society?

Of course, I see this is a very complex problem. I'm not against tax, I'm just against everything that we call 'tax' today.

Thanks again for reading :) And for provoking some interesting thoughts.

👍 scipio

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@scipio · Oct 25 '17

When people get taught, regardless about which topic, it stimulates them to start thinking for themselves. The more you think, the more you train yourself to form opinions on any type of subject. To think out of the box.

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