Nah I think in-person sales tax and land tax are the only legitimate taxes. You benefit from government infrastructure and protection in both in-person commerce and on your land.

Income tax is insane, capital gains is a moral atrocity, fiat currency is the largest tax since devaluation is exponential.

Also worth noting that if the state uses tax dollars to racially cleanse your people through demographic change and supports abortion, genocide, etc. You oughta do everything in your power to avoid paying all of it. My support of sales and land tax is strictly limited to a state that is at least someone virtuous.

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Yeah meditating on this more property tax is immoral too since the threat of of unpayment would be theft of your land thus removing sovereignty. I'll need to think about this more.

ALL taxes are only immoral because they are non-consensual.

Many of the services you are forced to buy from the state even make sense from a shared risk/ security perspective.

Now the freerider problem arises and people hope to indirectly gain from other people buying stuff that serves not just them.

Freeriders exist in every system. Today government bureaucrats and people dependent on social welfare are the free riders.

Wise people should ignore freeriders. Let other people grow in your shadow. Don't bother. Grow as strineg as possible. Lead by example.

When freeriders then strive to create value for society at large you know we won and broke a vicious cycle as the culture will then support or individual uprising.

In short.

If freeriders exist in all systems they can not be an excuse for a more repressive system over a more free one.