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Author: Bernd Jendrissek
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To: System undo crew
Subject: Re: [unSYSTEM] Happy (Bank) Holidays - Varoufakian Economics and UBI
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 1:38 AM, Devon Read <devon@???> wrote:
> My concern about this suggestion would be that taxes = force, even if they
> are intended to be used for benevolent purposes.


In the school of anarcho-statism, private property = force, and we
construct taxes as the transaction that creates society's consent to
your exclusive use of land/machines/whatever.

You can't really get away from force unless you reduce the size of
society to one.