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	<title>Comments on: The Law Isn&#8217;t Worth the Paper It&#8217;s Written On</title>
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		<title>By: Michael Bindner</title>
		<link>http://c4ss.org/content/388/comment-page-1#comment-394</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael Bindner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The same phenomenon can be found among pro-life advocates, who believe that if abortion is illegal, no one will have an abortion.

Of course, there are ways to set up laws so that they are self policing.  VAT taxes are more successful than retail only taxes because one person&#039;s tax in another person&#039;s tax deduction.

Shifting most tax benefits and taxation to a business income tax would also cut the administrative paperwork in half, since only the employer - who already both pays and reports - would write roughly the same size check, distributing money to employees and reporting distributions to both the government and the employee.  The government would then send a notice to the employees asking them to compare the two numbers and report back if they don&#039;t match or if the employer is committing fraud.  If a VAT is also charged then VAT receipts would also be reported so that no one could evade.

Ideally, there would also be credits for charitable contributions, the distribution of which would be determined by employees.  Contributions could be low, like the United Way, or high - something like the funding of tuition tax credits except that each employee decides to send money to the public or private school, mental health care and/or prison system of his or her choice - thus allowing for an end to publicly operated (though not publicly funded) systems.

A business income tax can do this is a way that the Fair Tax can&#039;t, since the FT merely funnels money to the state for the state to distribute.  

There are still &quot;statist elements&quot; in this scheme - but they are far less onerous than the current regime.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><!-- google_ad_section_start -->The same phenomenon can be found among pro-life advocates, who believe that if abortion is illegal, no one will have an abortion.</p>
<p>Of course, there are ways to set up laws so that they are self policing.  VAT taxes are more successful than retail only taxes because one person&#8217;s tax in another person&#8217;s tax deduction.</p>
<p>Shifting most tax benefits and taxation to a business income tax would also cut the administrative paperwork in half, since only the employer &#8211; who already both pays and reports &#8211; would write roughly the same size check, distributing money to employees and reporting distributions to both the government and the employee.  The government would then send a notice to the employees asking them to compare the two numbers and report back if they don&#8217;t match or if the employer is committing fraud.  If a VAT is also charged then VAT receipts would also be reported so that no one could evade.</p>
<p>Ideally, there would also be credits for charitable contributions, the distribution of which would be determined by employees.  Contributions could be low, like the United Way, or high &#8211; something like the funding of tuition tax credits except that each employee decides to send money to the public or private school, mental health care and/or prison system of his or her choice &#8211; thus allowing for an end to publicly operated (though not publicly funded) systems.</p>
<p>A business income tax can do this is a way that the Fair Tax can&#8217;t, since the FT merely funnels money to the state for the state to distribute.  </p>
<p>There are still &#8220;statist elements&#8221; in this scheme &#8211; but they are far less onerous than the current regime.<!-- google_ad_section_end --></p>
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		<title>By: rossb</title>
		<link>http://c4ss.org/content/388/comment-page-1#comment-390</link>
		<dc:creator>rossb</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>.. and neither is fiat currency. This will help clarify thinking regarding criminal states and their cronies.

The &quot;rule of law&quot; is a precisely defined law. It is the highest law of mankind, stated below:

“the suppression of forceful and fraudulent methods of goal seeking”

“all are treated equally by the law”. This means ALL, including king and judges

“absolute property rights”

This in turn is based on the fact that human behavior (the topic of law) is about goal seeking. In the seeking of any goal, there are only three possible methods: force, fraud and honest trade. Any transaction that is not an honest, mutually agreed trade will cause a self-defensive response (conflict) from the victim whose survival has been affected.

&quot;The Rule of Law&quot; is the glue that keeps all of mankind acting together in common interest, tied together by mutual dependence of trade, on an evolutionary path to excellence. Force and fraud creates conflict and destroys civilizations. Mankind is now on a devolutionary path to extinction because the co-operation once forced by &quot;the rule of law&quot; has been replaced by legitimizing force and fraud for those who incorrectly believe they wield power.

Rule of Law, Defined: http://www.nazisociopaths.org/modules/article/view.article.php/c1/34

Purpose of, Reasons For: http://www.nazisociopaths.org/modules/article/view.article.php/36

Mathematics of Rule (explains current economic stall):
http://www.nazisociopaths.org/modules/article/view.article.php/c1/32

Bill Ross
(Electronics Design Engineer)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><!-- google_ad_section_start -->.. and neither is fiat currency. This will help clarify thinking regarding criminal states and their cronies.</p>
<p>The &#8220;rule of law&#8221; is a precisely defined law. It is the highest law of mankind, stated below:</p>
<p>“the suppression of forceful and fraudulent methods of goal seeking”</p>
<p>“all are treated equally by the law”. This means ALL, including king and judges</p>
<p>“absolute property rights”</p>
<p>This in turn is based on the fact that human behavior (the topic of law) is about goal seeking. In the seeking of any goal, there are only three possible methods: force, fraud and honest trade. Any transaction that is not an honest, mutually agreed trade will cause a self-defensive response (conflict) from the victim whose survival has been affected.</p>
<p>&#8220;The Rule of Law&#8221; is the glue that keeps all of mankind acting together in common interest, tied together by mutual dependence of trade, on an evolutionary path to excellence. Force and fraud creates conflict and destroys civilizations. Mankind is now on a devolutionary path to extinction because the co-operation once forced by &#8220;the rule of law&#8221; has been replaced by legitimizing force and fraud for those who incorrectly believe they wield power.</p>
<p>Rule of Law, Defined: <a href="http://www.nazisociopaths.org/modules/article/view.article.php/c1/34" rel="nofollow">http://www.nazisociopaths.org/modules/article/view.article.php/c1/34</a></p>
<p>Purpose of, Reasons For: <a href="http://www.nazisociopaths.org/modules/article/view.article.php/36" rel="nofollow">http://www.nazisociopaths.org/modules/article/view.article.php/36</a></p>
<p>Mathematics of Rule (explains current economic stall):<br />
<a href="http://www.nazisociopaths.org/modules/article/view.article.php/c1/32" rel="nofollow">http://www.nazisociopaths.org/modules/article/view.article.php/c1/32</a></p>
<p>Bill Ross<br />
(Electronics Design Engineer)<!-- google_ad_section_end --></p>
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		<title>By: P.M.Lawrence</title>
		<link>http://c4ss.org/content/388/comment-page-1#comment-389</link>
		<dc:creator>P.M.Lawrence</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Here in Arkansas, gas pumps bear signs with the stern visage of a state trooper warning potential scofflaws that driving off without paying for gas will cause their drivers&#039; licenses to be revoked. The assumption, apparently, is that someone who will steal gas without any moral qualm or fear of getting caught, will nevertheless be afraid to drive without a license.&quot;

Actually, that would be a realistic approach if only driving licences really did work as licensing systems were originally designed to work. The idea was that you used licensing to create a privileged group that had an incentive to police and defend their privilege against others who were soon informed against, so the state then only had to apply sanctions against them (which is how taxi licences were set up and still work in London, and partly why the same licensing authority deals both with them and with bootblack licences - the other part being the public policy reason to have licensing in those fields in the first place, to head off opportunistic robbery of clients, the same issue in both cases). With that, people aren&#039;t &lt;I&gt;afraid&lt;/I&gt; to drive without a licence, they merely find they cannot do it. The threat on the pumps might work through fear of that, but it wouldn&#039;t be a case of backing up one fear with another, nor would the back up be unenforceable but rather self-policing.

However, in this day and age the authorities have forgotten how to use their tools and treat driving licences as a system policed by them, without external signs of being licensed and available to nearly everybody, so there is neither an incentive nor a method for the licensed to police the rest.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><!-- google_ad_section_start -->&#8220;Here in Arkansas, gas pumps bear signs with the stern visage of a state trooper warning potential scofflaws that driving off without paying for gas will cause their drivers&#8217; licenses to be revoked. The assumption, apparently, is that someone who will steal gas without any moral qualm or fear of getting caught, will nevertheless be afraid to drive without a license.&#8221;</p>
<p>Actually, that would be a realistic approach if only driving licences really did work as licensing systems were originally designed to work. The idea was that you used licensing to create a privileged group that had an incentive to police and defend their privilege against others who were soon informed against, so the state then only had to apply sanctions against them (which is how taxi licences were set up and still work in London, and partly why the same licensing authority deals both with them and with bootblack licences &#8211; the other part being the public policy reason to have licensing in those fields in the first place, to head off opportunistic robbery of clients, the same issue in both cases). With that, people aren&#8217;t <i>afraid</i> to drive without a licence, they merely find they cannot do it. The threat on the pumps might work through fear of that, but it wouldn&#8217;t be a case of backing up one fear with another, nor would the back up be unenforceable but rather self-policing.</p>
<p>However, in this day and age the authorities have forgotten how to use their tools and treat driving licences as a system policed by them, without external signs of being licensed and available to nearly everybody, so there is neither an incentive nor a method for the licensed to police the rest.<!-- google_ad_section_end --></p>
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