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Don't Owe Nothin (comment on this entry at LiveJournal)
Entry Date: 2004-08-07 23:21:00
Logged: 2004-08-07 23:25:24
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There are a lot of ways to not pay taxes. Some work. This one is legal. Its pretty simple - just don't earn much income. I like the author's point that you can march, vote, and agitate all you want - if you're still lining the governments pocket, they don't care.
I skimmed Claire Wolfe's Freedom Outlaw's Handbook on the plane today (as did the generic California lad next to me, with his surfer accent, blonde hair, cellphone conversations about parties, dope, Costa Rica, and the PCT, and major in Industrial Design). Its a book about what libertarians can do in their lives to fight for freedom, until the revolution comes. Right from the beginning, I liked it, as she argued against some of the same things I do (petitions, emails, letters, voting). I'm not as enamored with the things she argues for, but lets face it, its not an easy problem, and there aren't such great answers. Other than the fact that she's obsessed with privacy (keeping your info out of databases, not being snooped by the feds), it seemed like a decent book. A reasonable, though not amazing set of suggestions on a difficult topic.
The privacy thing is interesting, its something a lot of libs are obsessed about but just doesn't bother me. I think part of it is whether you have the intuition that information about you is your property. Many have that intuition, and are outraged over how the info is used. I don't, and so I just don't get it. You want to record all my spending habits? OK, sure. Not like I've ever tried to keep secret my taste for drugs, explosives, sex, rebellious politics, guns, and books about all the above. I'm an open lifestyle kinda guy.
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