On Thu, 12 May 2016 09:12:22 AM David Zuccaro via luv-main wrote:
a sense "own" it. As an aside the whole concept of "ownership" in my view is being eroded by the high tax regime here, speaking as a libertarian. By that the I mean to ask do you really "own" a house if you need to continually pay land rates, water rates, and council rates or if you house if subject to arbitrary entry by government agents as is the case currently in Australia?
Do you own a house if banks can destroy your neighborhood by robo-signing forclosure documents that the residents can't afford to legally oppose? Do you own a house if corporations own the roads, water, and electricity supplies and can cut off your entire neighborhood if it's not profitable or if there are mostly non-white people living there (IE Flint)? Do you own a house if a corporation can pollute the air and give you a high probability of cancer if you choose to keep living there? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_rates If you look at the comparison of countries by tax rates Australia doesn't seem that high. With a couple of exceptions it seems that the countries with higher tax rates than Australia are places you probably wouldn't mind living (Belgium, Finland, Sweden are all good places to live). The countries with the lowest tax rates include Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, and UAE - places where I don't even want to change flights. The middle-eastern countries with low tax are also fairly positive towards slavery, no-one who likes liberty wants anything to do with that. Libertarianism is all about liberty for the super-rich and serfdom for people like us. Libertarianism is about helping the powerful subjugate the weak. That's why mistreatment of children is so important to influential libertarians such as Rothbard and Rewart. I believe that society should protect the weak. We need a legal system to protect children from sexual abuse etc, a welfare system to prevent them from starving etc. The Libertarian approach of legalising child porn, ceasing welfare, and essentially forcing children into sex work is unacceptable to me. Liberty is not about people being forced into sex work so that they don't starve. The greatest liberty for the general population involves using a small portion of tax money to provide everyone with food to reduce the incidence of survival sex. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/