Taxes or Death, what's to choose?

Monsieur Beep sed:
The tax system is the interface where socialism sucks capitalism.
This statement has been manifested in my mind during the last few days.
Put it as you will: Tax IS theft, of the serious kind, I might even add!
I'm not alone with my opinion.
And what is your opinion?
Imagine, Eo, you just keep getting a fixed sum of money every year, no matter how hard you work, even if you don't work at all.......aahh, I'm repeating missen, already blog=commented on this here a while ago.
OK, just give me one good reason for a tax rate of more than 10%(at most).
I think this can be rectified only by a revolution.

I agree, except that revolutions never work either.

Anyway, I used to think that taxes was theft by "the tax man" or by "the government". What makes the problem so big, though, is that it really is theft by the whole of the population.

It really is exactly the same as 12 people living in a commune, and one of them has a windfall, and all the other gang up on him and demands he hands over half. It's the same, no difference, except it's codified.

The group will always demand a contribution from the individual, and more if he has more. Not because it's Right in any way, but because they outnumber him and so they can.

What shows the seriousness of this group abberation is that a "flat tax" is considered a fixed percentage regardless of income. Whereas a true flat tax would be a fixed amount regardless of income.

I've been looking at international tax havens. They do exists, which is interesting. But so far money has not been important enough for me take a step like that.

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Both Beep and TTL have earlier recommended The Alpha Strategy. While the book has its faults regarding saving strategies, it does have a wonderful explanation of we all steal from each other, creating high taxes and inflation.