Seriously? Building roads and libraries and schools and hospitals and public pools is “forced sharing at gunpoint”?
I would recommend taking an information diet a little less heavy in people streaming while driving their car.
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Dont pay your income taxes or property taxes and you get a warrant for your arrest.
Resist arrest and receive state violence
The post describes sharing as a choice
Are you saying that taxes are voluntary?
Sounds like it to me. I’m curious where this place is that one can choose government services a la carte. He has my sincere interest.
At the city level, taxes can be viewed like resort fees.
Taxes can be considered to be voluntary because if you don’t like the value or services provided, you don’t have to move to that city. You can choose another city to live in.
The problem is when taxes are imposed nationally. You do not have the right to choose or move. In that case those taxes are not voluntary.
Of course not - that’s precisely the point. Your original argument suggests that in order for whatever bizarre definition of “socialism” you’re taking about to work everyone needs to share voluntarily. Somehow along the way “socialism” became confused with a commune. It’s not a commune it’s a form of government.
I suppose I’m reacting to “Socialism sounds good because it is posited as a system where people share more.”
Nobody posits it as a system where people voluntarily share more. I don’t want socialism because I believe that Elon will share more and throw me a few scraps. Socialism sounds good because we will never have to rely on Elon voluntary sharing so that my kids have public schools etc. and yes of course to build the roads.
Sometimes I’m still amazed at how easy it is for us to believe that because the government has monopolized something, that it would be impossible to have it without them, even if we did before government monopolized it.
Guilty as charged. I look at Sweden’s healthcare system, and really find it hard to believe that this would just happen organically if you took the government away.
check your premises