Reply to Deborah Russell on Tax Havens II

My first reply was here, and set out the philosophical rebuttal. But I wished I’d added the below, which I’ve since left on Deborah’s original post:

You say, quote:

”… This has been precisely the problem in Greece: people routinely avoid taxes, because they think that everyone else is doing it, and so the Greek tax system has been undermined, perhaps fatally so.”

I disagree entirely. The ‘fatal’ aspect of Greece, and which is bankrupting the West, proper, is the size of the state, and how under mobocracy the state just keeps growing until the current tax take can’t cover it, hence governments need to borrow, so enslaving the next, and the next generation of tax slaves. This was certainly so for Greece: taking even the Greek state rail system, it had more employees than passengers. It would have been cheaper for the Greek taxpayer to simply give all passengers taxi chits. That’s insanity. Even a country can only print their way out of distorting free market forces to that degree for so long.

Regarding statism and the inherent advantage it has over freedom, Daniel Horowitz sums that up well:

“We must understand that there is an imbalance of power in the political system of any democracy in that the forces of statism have an innate advantage over the defenders of freedom. It takes but one legislative or administrative victory for statism to succeed in guiding society on an indelible path towards dependency. We cannot perpetuate the free-market, but we can perpetuate statism by creating inveterate dependency constituencies. Statism enjoys the inherent advantage of self-perpetuation through its own pernicious activities that engender a continued need for the government programs.”

In the West, under your Left ethic, Deborah, unfortunately democracy has finally triumphed over economics, which has been the triumph of insanity over reality.

In the next post I’m going to come back to the Westminster Principle again, because it’s so important once you realise that tax administration is the administration of the surveillance state. Deborah sees the striking down of this landmark classical liberal principle as moral, which is to turn the morality of that freedom we expect in the West on its head entirely. Without that principle it’s the Soviet styled society we live in, not a free society.  And everything connects. Because of the loss of that principle for tax, I’ll show how a judge in New Zealand’s employment courts has just disallowed the ability of an employer to make a staff member redundant because there was not the ‘business case’ for it: the employer’s business has now become the business of everyone other than the employer. Truly, that’s happened; just last week (NBR paid content). And then from there we’ll look at nationalising our children.

Next post … (probably).