People complain about national taxation, but before that, people were pressed into paying local warlords. There was no advanced planning or legal redress.

And since people weren't yet particularly productive, even relatively small taxes, like the traditional tenth, were highly onerous and could result in starvation.

Once you realize most anarcho-libertarian polices are fashioned for people hunting Injuns and bears, in the Wild West, where their next neighbor is 25 miles away, they make some sort of sense.

Otherwise, not.

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still warlords

stationary bandits is more elegant

Warlords we get to elect.

Anarchy is just everyone being a warlord, after all.

"elect" lol. lets take the EU as an example, the most important positions are not up for vote/election, they are placed/positioned by EU representives. big difference.

Are you saying that robbery on a national scale is better than local robbery?

taxing makes no sense, just look at bulgaria, why paying tax if they're just stealing the money and get away with it.

infrastructure is shit, no new hospitals build, no new schools build, electricity comes and goes, even in the richer areas, 6 elections in a row, 20% voter turnout, and still, the politicians at fault, are sitting in parliament, no accountability whatsoever.

at the same time, they want to increase your taxes and reduce your freedoms. we've all seen what happened during covid. your freedoms are an illusion at best. corruption is at such a high level, more regulation and more tax won't fix this. what we need, is more freedoms, and more non-conformity.

There is nothing that a state does that couldn't be done better by a private company. A very narrow take of this, Laeserin.

In society, one should only pay for security - police and military. Nothing else.

Leave charity/welfare to the Churches, economy to Industrialists, health to Doctors.

Governments intervening in these matters leads to waste. Example in the extreme is communism.

There is no ‘good’ socialism.

Can we leave the folks in the Modern West alone, is the question? Or do we *need* to assume their land to build our structures and house more people?