• usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    The individual person is being forced to pay taxes because they were born in a certain region of the world?

    I’m actually not seeing what’s weird about it. They are using and benefiting from the infrastructure that is paid for by those taxes, and pooling the resources this way allows the whole community you benefit in ways that can’t be done otherwise. The extension of this is that if you are able to pitch in but don’t then you’re essentially “stealing” from the rest of the population.

    I’m not well versed in the subtleties of a libertarian system; in a libertarian community, what’s done with people who try to benefit from what others are doing without pitching in?

    • enkers@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      I’m not well versed in the subtleties of a libertarian system

      That’s because no such system has ever worked for more than a few months. In the few attempts that have occurred, there’s no way to prevent tragedy of the commons type situations and everything quickly goes to shit. They either end up reinventing taxes or getting overrun with bears.