Did the implementation of the income tax successfully abolish private property?
In the most recent recording of The Vonu Podcast, Kyle Rearden proposed an interesting thesis that is as follows:
The implementation of the income tax here in "America" was a de-facto abolition of private property, as the State claims to own everything -- i.e. literally everything is taxable income.
Personally, I think he's on to something...something that Rayo understood in the 1960s and something propertarian/free-market anarchists likely realize as well.
This being the case, what does it mean for modern self-liberators and freedom pioneers? Well, it means we have to be creative in coming up with solutions around this obstacle.
Here are two initial solutions:
- Nomadic lifestyles: This would include strategies such as van nomadism, minimalist sailboating, perpetual traveling, and country shopping. If the coercers can't find you, they can't coerce you.
- The Second Realm: If you aren't a listener to the podcast, we recently just concluded a 16-part, 25 hour series on this subject. In short, the idea is to create the new, free society not within the shell of the old, but outside of it, and despite its coercive existence.
What do you think? Is Kyle right? Do you have any other possible ways around this? Let me know!
I just caught you work for the time just now on the feed. Good stuff, I'll be keeping up from now on bud.
Gregory: Fantastic to hear! Nice to make your acquaintance!
Statism relies heavily on the welfare state. If your life on paper looks like your below or close to the poverty level, the state will typically not engage you to extract wealth.
There is no measure of how efficient one persons life condition is as compared to another. That creates the opportunity for freedom folks to build wealth under the radar by utilizing efficiency.
Since first realm systems rely on first realm efficiencies, this shouldn't be difficult to outpace.
The bigger problem I see in second realm is in the concept as a social construct.
Social constructs are open to infiltration, as many of your videos explain and attempt to prevent.
I propose not using the realm model as much as the outpost model, where each person represents a outpost.
If second realm had any organizational characteristics, the state would invent something under the RICO Act to shut it down.
It may take some time to analyze ultra anarchy methods of exchanging without organization. Similar to 'cold calling' there could be 'cold trading' that could provide enough of a decentralized market that would not be infiltrated.
There would be no records of what was traded or who was trading. Even the term 'trading' could be a problem, as the state has seen fit to be the regulator of trade.
Maybe call it gifting, or something outside legal terms of trading.
https://steemit.com/secondrealm/@joesal/second-realm-mapping
@joesal : I'm going to have ponder this in addition to your post and get back to you. Damn, man -- I'm glad there are others out there trying to figure out the logistics for these things to exist. We should probably have a conversation sometime.
I look forward to it.
Here's my lengthy response, @joesal. https://steemit.com/anarchy/@shaneradliff/the-second-realm-response-to-joesal
Would you be interested in coming on LUA Radio to take a deep dive into Second Realms? I would sincerely enjoy that.
If you think about it this way:
All money printed by the federal
reserve is loaned into existence.
All of these federal reserve notes
need 2B payed back with interest.
This just might be the crux of their
power to tax and to destroy. As a
people we've accepted their tool,
and their tool makes tools of US.
Theory Being
They let us hold the money, not own it.
Even when you work for it, you do not
own the FRNs that you receive. As a
collective we should not be exchanging
our labor for a right to hold something
that we cannot own, because it was a loan.
It would only eliminate private property if the tax rate was 100%.