Taxation refers to charges paid by an organization or individual which are mandated by a government organization.
Regardless of socialist or capitalist structure, some form of taxation will exist if the government is at all involved in regulating/redistributing capital. If you’re capitalist you want subsidies, so taxation. If you’re liberal you want the illusion of welfare, so taxes. If you’re a socialist you want basic needs to be socialized, so taxes. Etc.
I’m anarchist. I think freedom can solve many problems in the world, but I don’t like capitalism, because it’s about competition. My ideal world would be a cooperative anarchism.
Even in an anarchist society, the movement of goods/services to those in need would arguably be taxes.
For example, say you are in a fully anarchist community. If your community needs help collecting/producing some resource and you refuse to help, you won’t be a member of the community for long. The community (the government organization in this case) mandates that its members cooperate with the community. The charge may not be monetary, but human labor is still capital, capital that you are expected to pay towards the community.
The implementation of taxes is frequently corrupt/questionable, but the idea itself is not
Well, yes, community would be like a family where everybody has to help to maintain it. But unlike our current system, the individual would participate in the decisions, instead of voting the guy who takes the decision on his behalf (and very often against his own interest and will).
I don’t think blind compliance is about ignorance. Many of the most educated people in the world support the existence of taxes
Taxation refers to charges paid by an organization or individual which are mandated by a government organization.
Regardless of socialist or capitalist structure, some form of taxation will exist if the government is at all involved in regulating/redistributing capital. If you’re capitalist you want subsidies, so taxation. If you’re liberal you want the illusion of welfare, so taxes. If you’re a socialist you want basic needs to be socialized, so taxes. Etc.
Are you a libertarian?
I’m anarchist. I think freedom can solve many problems in the world, but I don’t like capitalism, because it’s about competition. My ideal world would be a cooperative anarchism.
Even in an anarchist society, the movement of goods/services to those in need would arguably be taxes.
For example, say you are in a fully anarchist community. If your community needs help collecting/producing some resource and you refuse to help, you won’t be a member of the community for long. The community (the government organization in this case) mandates that its members cooperate with the community. The charge may not be monetary, but human labor is still capital, capital that you are expected to pay towards the community.
The implementation of taxes is frequently corrupt/questionable, but the idea itself is not
Well, yes, community would be like a family where everybody has to help to maintain it. But unlike our current system, the individual would participate in the decisions, instead of voting the guy who takes the decision on his behalf (and very often against his own interest and will).
Yes, thats my point, centralization and hierarchy of power is typically the problem with these systems, not taxes