Topic: 2013-04-05 Bloomberg Btc Really "Existential Threat to the Modern Liberal State" (Read 4224 times)

because the planet is owned by some folks only, not all.

yeah, this is one of things that really rubs me raw.  i'm mortgage free too but yet these taxes on my own land keep going up.

Taxing land is probably the biggest rip-off since banks began. Ridiculous. "I own my house, but I have to pay a LAND tax every year."

Yeah, you 'own' your house, and the banks/govt 'own' you.

why do i have to pay to be living on the planet I was born on. 

+1

Land tax is the super efficient and the only sensible way to tax. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax#Efficiency

welcome

OK.  You're right.  Consider yourself ignored, crap.

let's try that then

We can't.  This forum doesn't work like that.  There's only the ignore button.

I fixed the title...sorry I didn't know the policy.  I've disconnected from bitcoin forums for 1.5 years.

bloomberg = jewish

I suggest we cut the crap

PMed the OP. Hope he changes the DATE!

Favourite part of the piece:


 

If one were to draw a Venn Diagram of the points of intersection between Liberals, Progressives, Anarchists, Libertarians, Conservatives, and Teabaggers, bitcoin might be the only point of intersection.

Maybe beer...

I really don't like the headline because it will tend to make liberals be opposed to bitcoins when they should be welcoming it.

And as far as taxes, yes bitcoin can eventually lead to the elimination of transaction based taxation, but real estate taxes are pretty much inescapable so I foresee governments switching most taxes over to that. They will probably have to lower overall taxation though.

"Liberal State" is an oxymoron.

Given how the real-world central banks are ruining the economy with their monetary policy, this is a big REASON to use bitcoin! Undermining banks that steal funds to cypriots? Hell, YEAH 

The state will never go away completely.  Have a massive haircut?  Probably.  But it will never go away.  Nature abhors a vacuum and a power vacuum in society is one of the fastest that gets filled.  This makes it that much more important to hold the government accountable and to replace the clowns in government when they start (continue) to break the laws that govern them.


The same way that Walmart and your employer collects taxes on cash transactions.  Bitcoin will just prevent the money you already have from being confiscated without your approval.  It doesn't mean that you can't be thrown in jail for not paying your taxes.  (Not that I really agree with the level of taxes currently in force....)


With the right incentives and disincentives in the law, it won't really matter what monetary system is in use.  Unfortunatly, there is always going to be some crime that goes unpunished.  This is true even in an authoritarian dictatorship.  It is more a question of holding crime down to a reasonable level given the freedoms that we have and are (supposed to) be guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.  The only alternatives that would make crime noexistant is for everybody to be dead or in jail or there to be no law at all, and none of these are attractive.


That's the real point.  This is what it appears that Bloomberg is really worried about.  "They are going to take away my money printing tools!"  Good.  Then they will have to actually work for once instead of just leaching off of the hard work of everybody else.

Also, in the spirit of kiba I add: DATE!  Also, https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/guidelines-for-press-board-76487

Mmmph.

NO DATE IN FORUM TOPIC?