Comments on: Taxing Cyberspace Sales: Enslaving to Stay Alive http://c4ss.org/content/751 building public awareness of left-wing market anarchism Sat, 24 Jan 2015 02:24:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Michael Bindner http://c4ss.org/content/751/comment-page-1#comment-616 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:45:59 +0000 http://c4ss.org/?p=751#comment-616 We have cut taxes for the most prosperous among us in half. They did not give their money to charity, but by and large bought stocks and CDOs in the secondary market. The myth that if we cut taxes, a boom in charity will replace the government is just that, a myth. This meme is without empirical proof, even though it has had since the Reagan tax cuts to prove itself.

Let’s abandon this premise, shall we? Until we do, the demand for government services will continue unabated and the tyrants will have plenty of reason to stay in power.

As long as we keep up taxes on brick and morter sales, the issue of Internet taxes will continue. Of course, if there were a comprehensive VAT for things the government provides directly and an expanded business income tax for entitlements (which would not show up on receipts), the question of Internet taxation would be overcome by events. Internet businesses would find some way to pay their taxes, since they have been paying taxes to their suppliers and would want to unload this obligation on the public at large. Maybe then the conversation will go where we want it to go in the first place – toward making the government actually shrink rather than simply finding a way around the tax system.

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