Jason White wrote:
thelionroars <thelionroars1337@gmail.com> wrote:
On 21 August 2012 12:33, Alex Hutton <highspeeddub@gmail.com> wrote:
What gives Australia the right to make promises on my behalf and obligate me into fulfilling them?
The fact that it is a government and you choose to live and work here, thus paying taxes. This is so self-evident that I am questioning whether you are genuine in asking. And if you don't like this arrangement, the simple answer is to find yourself a better deal.
And there isn't one, if absence of obligations imposed by the state is what you want, except perhaps Somalia, where there hasn't been an effective government since 1991. Of course, there are strong reasons not to live there...
He could potentially live in international waters or a micronation (e.g. sealand) -- I don't know offhand what kind of government "interference" he'd be subjected to in such cases. Likewise he could go to some shitty little island where the effective level of government is negligible, if only because the president is Fred Nurk who is a farmer by day and only does the presidenting on saturday afternoons, etc. If any of those still exist, and are recognized by the rest of the world as being legitimate nation-states (cf. e.g. Hutt River Province).