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So the NHS, education, libraries etc are toys?
He might be a libetarian, this does not make him an anarchist. An anarcho-capitalist maybe, but this is very different from anarchism.
Yep, the poor tend to pay disproportionatly more than the rich.
The poor pay a lot; they don’t pay big income taxes but they pay sale taxes and they pay regressive taxes for smoking, alhogol, petrol and other state-regulated prices. On the other hand they get a lot in form of benefits, free this and free that. On the third hand ( scuseme I as an a descender of aliens may use such expressions) this free stuff has extremely low quality…
The rich pay the highest progressive tax, they pay for heritage, for property for so called luxury, double price for health care, education their children and other stuff you even don’t know. On the other hand they are closer to politicians so they have more loopholes, excuses, opportunities for bribery so on. On the third hand ( sorry I mean on the third pseudopodia) they in this way put themselves under politicians’ control and being easy victims of blackmail pay in long run more than gain. ( in form of bribes, not taxes of course)
The Middle Class? Too big theme to discuss…make your own conclusions.
My conclusion is plain and simple;
The poor pay more than they gain.
The rich pay more than they gain.
The middle class… blah blah blah
What would you replace it with?
BUT, how would YOU suggest that the police are paid for, or maybe we shouldnt have any?
The best solution of every problem is market solution. So PDA’s, Private Defensive Agencies. Mr. Sherlock Holmes is much better than Scotland Yard, yes? Plus militia that is armed citizens and complete freedom to own, carry, buy and sell guns.
I would glad to have an Uzi in my car, a Beretta to carry to college, a rifle ( for burglars), a Kalashnikov ( for tax collectors) and a heavy machinegun ( for activists of any political party) in my home plus a huge old Colt of Wild West style to walk main streets and sit in pubs. Wouldn’t it be amazing? And be honest, you want the same! You just don’t want to admit this.
Oh for fucks sake. :rolleyes: The market solution is best for the people at the top. It screws everyone else big time. :mad:
Why not remove all law at the same time?
I'm sure society would run really well if there was no law and order at all.
The strong would survive and the weak die, fantastic. Pure Darwinism.
Look at stateless societies like ‘savages’ somewhere in Amazonia. Although they don’t have a government they have law and order. The weak get aid, the old get respect ( not comparable with what they have in ‘civilized’ countries!). If they can live without rulers why we who are much more educated, wealthy, experienced can’t?
Governments don’t create and don’t keep up law and order, they rather destroy it!
Law, to be working and effective, shouldn’t be INVENTED, it should be DISCOVERED. But there is not less effective way to discover laws than parliament system. Imagine, what would happen if laws of physics were made in this way. One party say apples must fall down, other party says they must fly up. Herds of special interests groups of any tint are lobbying and bribing MP’s, brainwashe the public, demanding correctives for not ripe apples, exceptions for pears, special conditions for apricots, privileges for bananas. Instead of a simple formula clear to every kid we’d have thousand-paged ‘law’ full of contradictions, gaps, loopholes where only tricky lawyers could understand anything.
PS You didn’t answer, do you want to have a Colt?
And if the "Market" decides that it wants a single organisation for each, paid for by the entire population, you would be satisfied?
Have you been to a country where there is almost free trade in guns?
Its not normally a nice place to be. And owning a gun does NOT make you feel any safer.
And as you can see my conclusions are opposite to yours.
And I must say one thing- owning a gun MAKES you safer!
I must explain THIS?
But they also have strong law and order.
Can you name me ONE country that has not got a law and order system, that has guns AND if safe?