Yes, unpatriotic.
In response to Soros's Panama story, tax cheats are quickly coming out to defend tax cheating. This monstrous Randian says that tax cheats are the best citizens.

Other Repoof talkers are roaring that the foremost "right" of citizens is tax evasion. They smash leftists for calling evasion "unpatriotic". Repoofs say paying taxes is unpatriotic.

Fuckheads. You say a government ought to be run more like a business, and then you say a government shouldn't require its customers to pay. It should encourage theft.

Can't have it both ways.

I agree that a government should be run like a business. Let's take it down to basics.

A government is first of all a piece of territory with people on it. Governments aren't exactly natural, though a beehive or ant-nest or a herd of elephants gives the starting point. A hole in a tree or a building made of wax and paper, with WALLS and BOUNDARIES around the outside. The government's first job is to defend the BOUNDARIES against other colonies or tribes. The queen bee or alpha elephant organizes the defense, and in return expects some kind of payment, generally food, from the regular citizens.

Simple human governments do the same thing. Chief organizes warriors who defend the territory from other tribes; citizens bring food and other forms of value to the chief. When the chief has enough extra food and squaws, he may be able to expand the territory or build better tents or provide better buffalo-hunting tools to the citizens.

There it is. Business. Provide a service, receive payment, save profits against a rainy day, expand if possible.

Modern governments provide more complicated services, using corporations and businesses as subcontractors. Corporations are licensed to help the government defend or expand territory, or to efficiently use and distribute resources like oil and copper and farm crops.

Their most important duty, unfortunately not specified by law in Western countries, is to maintain the natural setup of civilization. Keep people busy and useful, and pay them for being useful, so families can thrive.

The Soviet system made the subcontractor duties direct and explicit, and also made the job-providing duties direct and explicit.

We tried to recapture the family-support duty around 1900 with Social Economics. NCR, Ford, Marland, others. It worked, so we stopped doing it and let the Japs and Koreans have it. Still works nicely for them, though the Japs are getting stupid enough to abandon it.



I made this picture last year to illustrate a story about JW Tilden, a gas station operator who had been blinded when thieves beat him up.

Government is a service station, selling corporations a larger share of resources and infrastructure and defense. Corporations SHOULD be paying more for this larger share.

If Polistra gassed up her Bantam and drove away without paying, she'd be a thief, but not quite on the level of modern corporate tax cheats. Corporate tax cheats are more like the thieves who blinded JW. They beat up the government with purchased laws and regulations, and then the blinded government can't see them stealing everything else.

Yes, cheaters are unpatriotic.

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Sidenote: 'Ought to be run like a business' reminds me. Repoofs are also constantly saying that we need to have a President who has 'made a payroll'. I analyzed this, finding a weak inverse connection between business background and competence as President.

Well. Now you Repoofs finally HAVE a candidate who has spent his life 'making a payroll', starting businesses, hiring and famously firing people. And you HATE HATE HATE HATE him. You want him to die in extreme pain and you want to send his supporters to Auschwitz.

Can't have it both ways, fuckheads.

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