Tuesday, 13 August 2013
The truth is not grey
Taxation is aggressive but it also violates the categorical imperative. In a strictly rights-based system of morality we might argue that since we have a right to our own labour we have a right not to be taxed. And whilst this is enough to demonstrate the invalidity of tax we can further show that it violates the categorical imperative because it cannot apply universally. If taxes apply universally then everything is owned by the state and we have communism. But communism doesn't work (which we know from experience) so the state cannot own everything and so it cannot tax completely. Since it cannot tax completely it should not tax at all since otherwise it would be violating the categorical imperative. (All or nothing.) We can say that that which cannot apply universally should not apply at all and so then there should be no tax. If the government cannot own everything it should own nothing and there should be no taxation.
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