[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"][QUOTE="famicommander"][QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"] Society does cost.... It is a mistake to equate society with government. Government is the most anti-social entity in the history of man. Government is responsible for more suffering and unnatural death than any other cIass of people in history. Government is a hindrance to the peaceful cooperation of society.Wrong. The answer to that is PEOPLE are the cause. Government is just a word we use to describe a political entity of PEOPLE. It's not "people" in the broad sense, but a specific group of persons. Generally, the most amoral and corrupt persons a society has to offer. Just because a particular group of persons has won the approval (or indifference, or bitter acceptance) of a majority of people in a given area doesn't mean it's okay for them to commit robbery or murder or kidnapping.
[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"][QUOTE="Person0"][QUOTE="famicommander"] Because I believe armed robbery is wrong, and that's what taxation amounts to. Nobody would pay taxes if there weren't a threat of violence involved. Yeah who needs a gov't..... I'm sure he's used society's funds for himself. I think he should stop being a hypocrite and pay it back. The only time I've used any government "service" has been when government has outlawed any possible alternative. I was coerced into using them.
Because I believe armed robbery is wrong, and that's what taxation amounts to. Nobody would pay taxes if there weren't a threat of violence involved. Yeah who needs a gov't..... Who, indeed?
Why not? Society does cost.... It is a mistake to equate society with government. Government is the most anti-social entity in the history of man. Government is responsible for more suffering and unnatural death than any other cIass of people in history. Government is a hindrance to the peaceful cooperation of society.
[QUOTE="famicommander"]I am against all tax increases of any sort and I am in favor of all tax cuts (or tax evasion) of any sort.Fairmonkey
why? Because I believe armed robbery is wrong, and that's what taxation amounts to. Nobody would pay taxes if there weren't a threat of violence involved.
Economics is certainly a real science, but it's not an empirical one like physics or chemistry. Economics is a science of human action like philosophy or sociology. And good economists do not indeed assume, as you say, that people have perfect information or access to information. A good economist simply assumes that, given any end, a person will choose the means which are least expensive to him in order to reach that end. A good economist assumes that a person will always benefit from any voluntary exchange because if he didn't expect to benefit no exchange would take place. More information may become available later and cause a person to regret an exchange, but that doesn't change the fact that he believed he would benefit at the time the exchange was made.
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