re: #485 swamprat
Mathematically, letting you keep x amount of your money is the same as giving you x amount of “their” (the governments, “our” money;
amount owed, minus me paying x, equals something
amount owed, they give me x, so I don’t have to pay it, equals the same number.
The numbers might be the same, but from a personal rights and freedom viewpoint, these numbers are the result of 2 totally different transactions.
Also;
Does the government own your money, and you allow them to repossess it?
or
Does the government deserve your money and you owe them for what services they perform?It is a matter of viewpoint.
One side is a bit more tyrannical and arrogant, than the other.
But you’re still out some cash at the end of the day.But attitude DOES matter.
I think it’s a matter of how you define ownership. I don’t see ownership as an absolute concept, merely a way of saying who has the current possession of a resource.
As Ben Franklin said “The use of money is the only good in having it.”