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prefsMONERO is the Final Solution to the Taxman Question
Death and taxes are unavoidable wherever you go -- they say. Now, I don't know about death, but the taxes part is contestable, especially nowadays due to a new digital money called MONERO1.
Monero is on it's way to becoming the Schelling point2 for the private digital cash. The "digital cash" part comes from its following properties:
- scarce
- durable
- divisible
- transportable
- FUNGIBLE
The "privacy" part comes from its following properties:
- sender is untraceable
- receiver is untraceable
- amounts are encrpyted
With such qualities, Monero presents a new and large landscape of freedom. That freedom consists of individuals shifting their monetary savings and transactions from government mandated fiat moneys to voluntary and untraceable monetary network of Monero. As more and more people use Monero, we are bound to see some fascinating emergent phenomena occuring on the social landscape, the most fascinating of which is the dissolution of involuntary taxation.
What is the taxman question?
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Today, taxes are automatically deducted from your income. Each month numerous taxes are billed from your paycheck so much so that you don't even know exactly which government spending you are financing with your hard earned money.
The situation wasn't always this way. In the older times -- let's say before the 20th century -- governments had to plead to their citizens for tax income. This "pleading" might not have been in the form of the ruling elite kneeling in front of you and begging you to pay your part for the upcoming military expedition; but, it was certainly in a way that imposed some constraint and overhead in the efforts of the tax-collector. They had to explain to some segment of the populace how much they were collecting and for what reason, they had to either travel to the taxed populace's dwellings or compel the populace to send their physical gold/silver coins to them. Either way, it wasn't as easy job as it is today to tax a populace.
The taxman question is this: how can you protect your political will in the face of involuntary taxation practices carried out on you by an alien or outright hostile government? In this case, let's define the term "political will" as your ability to "say no", or change and/or affect some decision and action that gets imposed on you by the society, by the government.
Forget voting, the ability to withhold your money, capital, labor, your time and attention, away from the pieces of shits that assume to be ruling over you is the real political action. The only way to affect change on a political structure that doesn't care about your individual well being is NOT "voting harder" once in every four years, it is NOT sitting on your ass and waiting "your turn, so that they will get their comeuppance"; but it IS striking back, hurting the structure, cutting its lifeblood, money, from going into it.
Monero as a tool of liberation and empowerment
Monero is a tool of liberation from this unchecked tyranny and a tool of empowerment for the individual. This empowerment of the individual occurs on the economical and political dimensions -- although these two dimensions are quite related to each other.
Monero is scarce, and can't be printed out of the government's central banks. Instead of a group of bureacracts with no-faces, who are completely unaccountable to your existing political means, and who do not answer you about the damages they inflict on you due to the rampant and arbitrary inflation of the money supply; Monero has a well-defined and set-in-stone monetary emission schedule. At any given time, the supply of Monero coins in its monetary system is known and can be forecasted. The issuance of the coins are done by the proof of work of distributed computers all around the world, not controlled by a single entity who has his boot over your neck.
Monero is untraceable, and therefore, the government goons with their monopoly on violence mandate cannot detect the person who (you) chooses not to be sacked by unexplained, unreasonable and uncalled-for taxes. Once your money escapes into Monero's digital safe haven, it is safe and it is with you, in your head. And it is up to your own voluntary action whether you would like to pay for a government request at funding a particular spending.
This is such a radical change in the way we do government funding that the possibility space Monero opens up is simply fascinating. As more people transact using Monero and save their money in the absolute scarcity of Monero's monetary units, the government will simply lose its grip on the people's pockets that it assumes to be ruling over.
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