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All the posers here thinking they are very smart, while never asking similar "stupid" questions about their own political ideologies.
In general, smart people ask stupid questions about everything.
As of this specific question, there are various possible answers:
Crowdfunding;
Custom fees as a source of income;
Close to taxes, but paying some fixed fee, like a membership fee.
Variants which are taxes, but relevant for the question in spirit:
Georgism;
Only one simple income tax, only one simple property tax, no other taxes;
Deciding every citizen's payment into budget on a popular vote every N years (may even make it not a sum, but a percentage of property or something), as the average of submitted numbers or something.
Not a sovcit, but they do have a point in saying "fuck you" to the authority.
Wait you're calling us stupid and you think the government can fund themselves through crowdfunding.
The government tells people they no longer have to pay taxes but they can if they want. That's your pitch is it?
I don't.
Why can't leftists argue without distorting their opponents' words?
We aren't distorting your words. Just rearranging them so your logic becomes clear.
Please, tell us what you exactly mean then.
How would crowdfunding work if it isn't based on non-mandatory donations?
Oh fuck this extremely salient point has changed my mind entirely.
It's actually profound is what it was.
You're such a clown, mr. Superior. The fact that you can proudly claim you're smarter than everybody else while arguing for the stupidest shit speaks volumes. Thank you, I needed a good laugh this morning
You are sounding a bit SovCit adjacent in the old glaring-holes-in-your-theory kinda way
This is what's called a strawman fallacy kids
I know what my words mean, so arguing to me about that is ... (without insults) ... never right.
Honestly at this point you either seem like you're trolling or you're very passionate but haven't done your research beyond reading a few articles years ago without following up or verifying their sources.
Then when people point out the flaws you go into personal attack mode
Have you rehearsed this phrase before a mirror? I mean, where specifically in these insult exchanges was research required?
Also people don't reason with "ahahaha, this has been disproved many times, everybody knows this". Not all social changes since Lucian's time I like.
There's been one (1) person who came really pointing out something, which I gave answers for.
Okay
No one's distorting your words, that's literally what you said, you literally said the government could fund themselves through crowdfunding, it's right there, you said it.
How the hell would that work. People already dodge taxes that they have required to pay, I WAS if you're not required to pay taxes then they definitely won't do it at all.
I don't need to rearrange your words to make them sound stupid.
I said it can be one of the sources of income and it already is in the form of war bonds and donations.
Some dodge taxes, some donate. I've donated to some things. Many others did.
You need something, you want something done, you have a motivation.
It's a part of a list.
But how is any of that better than the current system of taxes which will ensure they get money?
It doesn't seem like relying on the good will of people could possibly work. And I don't see how the richer incentivized to pay literally anybody anything at all.
This all seems like the sort of thing a hippie comes out with, but they're allowed to come out with that kind of rubbish because their brains are permanently suzzled, so what's your excuse?
Ideological problem, where you can't opt out.
This has some similarities with wind as a source of renewable energy. It's one of the inputs, not all of the budget.
In this particular line of the list there's no incentive other than goodwill.
I don't need any excuse for thinking about possible solutions. I'd argue people with such reactions to those do.
And since you said "this all", other points are not reliant on goodwill. If by excuse you jokingly meant the reason we can't do with usual taxes - because of corruption in the wide sense. Unfair advantages gotten by some companies paying full taxes and other getting exemptions in various ways, bribe money finding more targets in a complex bendable system, imbalance of interests affecting lawmakers though the way the budget is comprised.
No they don’t. Fighting “authority” for the sake of it stupid and meaningless because it’s so vague it’s dangerous. You fight the injustice or the lack of transparency, but what you prescribe as “authority” could be anything from schools that educate to laws that protect to support of groups you don’t belong to.
If you said “Authoritarianism”, you’d have a point.
No and I don't owe you anything
And we don't owe you respect
"We" is a symptom of some disorder? Or you think that numbers matter here?
We as in every person who downvoted your delusional rants.
"We" means you (and every person yadda yadda) don't have basic dignity
Seek help.
You are definitely displaying a number of disorders, that is for sure.
ASD and ADHD. 2 is a number.
But I'm grateful for them, as in this conversation they show me to be generally more adequate than your side.
Also forgot to say that I don't need your respect.
I would also add symptoms of ODD, HPD, and NPD
I don't think scolding morons is indicative of any of these
people with NPD rarely see the problems with their behavior, so this checks.
Oh, half the time of therapy I'm being told that things I perceive as problems with my behavior are not.
But then fighting windmills or ignorami is definitely that. Thx for a good thought
Every comment you make is just evidence of what I suspect. I mean, you are like a cliche.
Hell yeah baby privatise the military😎💵💵 /s
Wrong post. All things mentioned are about one centralized state.
The reason for them instead of usual taxes is to make it harder to embezzle taxes and reduce motivation to corrupt the state apparatus. You've heard that before, it was the usual republican shit.
The don't say "fuck you" though - they say "gotcha!". The way I understand it, the Sovereign Citizens Movement is a cargo cult. They hear about all the billionaires who barely pay taxes thanks to clever accounting and all the criminals who escape punishment on technicalities, and figure that "if the law can be manipulated - why can't we manipulate it?"
Do they "have a point"? Maybe, in the same way alchemy had a point that lead and gold are made of the same fundamental matter and therefore one can be converted to the other. In the same way humoralist medicine had a point that the human body has various substances that must be balanced to maintain health. They've all had a point in that they've managed to glimpse at the nature of the problem - and they all fail by grossly underestimating the actual complexity of the model and the amount of effort, resources and expertise required to achieve their goals.
I wouldn't be surprised if an expert legal team could achieve some of the things SovCits are trying to achieve. But that would require lots of hard work from them, and SovCits have managed to convince themselves that all it takes is a few magic phrases. I leave it to anthropologists to figure out how they came to think they could so easily figure out what these magic phrases are.
Ah, there is that, yes. There are people who believe that law is some magic where they can prove anything if they know it well enough and know some secrets.
It's not a bad belief, frankly. They want to prove something they consider right, so they believe the law would be on their side if they worked hard enough. Just naive, but not worth ridicule.
In the sense that its connection to justice is not 1-to-1 they are right, but there are no secrets that bend it, just raw real power which a sovereign citizen doesn't possess.
Oh, you already said that.
I don't know what you mean by "figure out" (as in what else there is to figure out), but this is indeed a common enough plot point in fairy tales.
I was talking about the emotional part where right and common sense matter more than the law. The law is supported by force, so it's morally acceptable to use force to protect right and common sense against it. Oh, well, speaking of USA, that's in their Constitution anyway, and what's more important, those founding fathers they like to mention have many times said that this is a natural principle and the Constitution doesn't create or support it, just mentions it.
Crowdfunding;
Custom fees as a source of income;
Close to taxes, but paying some fixed fee, like a membership fee.
these are just taxation with extra steps
Sovcits believe most of the laws are corrupted or something like this, so these things are better as they are simpler and can even be put into constitutional law or something.
I've never met one, we have "citizens of USSR" where I live.
Sounds like someone has never gone on a charity drive and hasn't experienced how limited one could get funding from it.
One line in a list
You’re definitely misunderstanding this post. Yeah, there’s value in bucking authority. But you’re also just describing taxes. It sounds like you’ve read up on the modern form of libertarianism. Which is another crock.
The problem isn’t that they’re questioning authority. Generally most people (especially on lemmy) are down with that. We’re talking about the leaps of illogic that sovcits rest their entire belief system on. This post is to highlight the absurd hypocrisy in what they preach. Not to call their disobedience of authority foolish, but their methods and entirely unfounded beliefs.
You mean that they are imagining a phantom republic so resilient that they can live by its "true" laws while most people violate them day and night, and that these "true" laws make functioning of said republic impossible?
Many people believe in rule of law, yet revolutions and forceful changes are a necessity, states recognize facts made against existing law all the time, every state and system in existence has been erected by illegal violence, and with all that many say that another revolution (in hypothetical scenario, not right now) would somehow be less legal than existing systems. There's a clear contradiction here, the only answer to which is usually that the current situation is in common interest and you can't do that, because "fuck around and find out".
There are such contradictions in free speech, of which everyone here certainly knows - one can use free speech to kill free speech. There are such contradictions in property rights, as everyone ridiculing ancaps certainly knows. There are such contradictions in personal freedom. There was another example but I think I'm writing too much. Got this habit while learning English at school.
I've read up on many forms of it. Yes, I'm literally listing ways to make taxes acceptable for a libertarian.
TL;DR: Nobody employs pure ideology. If sovcits were to make their own state, they'd have taxes with the reasoning that these are necessary in practice. Same as NEP in Soviet Russia.
How very libertarian of you. Who’s going to make me pay those “not tax” taxes? Your private military? Well, my private military is bigger so I say NO to your desire for my money.
This post is not about libertarianism, idiot. Bunch of lefties overloaded me with their bullshit yesterday and now the slow ones come to have a shot, thinking those of yesterday didn't buttfuck themselves publicly with triumphant look.
In general when you are doing such things like they did instead of normal discussion, you are robbing yourself of an ability to make a case for your wrong opinion.
You merely stating things doesn't make them right. But keep believin' I suppose. You got plenty of rational arguments yesterday, too bad you weren't able to respond to them 🤷♀️