Taxation the tool of Tyranny!

Originally taxation -always tyranical was used to fund armies and foreign adventure and keep the peace of the realm. Logical enough albeit as I say a violation of liberty as the only proper arrangement amongst peoples who wish to be truly human and free is a system of non state coercion  and the forcible extraction of monies from the people is always tyrannical regardless for what cause it is extracted noble or ignoble.

However, as I say, at least taxation for the above purpose had some logic to it in its own way and was somewhat understandable but at a certain point in history round about the late1800s starting with BisMarx's first Welfare State and gathering apace in England with theLoyd Gorgion Liberals who at that point transformed themselves from 19th century liberals to what can now be seen in retrospect as prototypical socialists who, with the introduction of a pension scheme, and a socialising of education oversaw the nascent creeping advance of welfarism and with unionisation of the workplace and various surreptitious incremental steps towards a socialist infrastructure we can see a prefiguration of the full blown welfare state finally ushered in by the Leninist looking -and sounding Clement Atlee and his Labour wrought Welfare State, the 'intellectual' product itself of Beveridge a full blown statist ideologue in a hurry.

So we can see how taxation was 'corrupted' so to speak and turned from a means of keeping the country safe from external and internal threats into a tool of Egalitarianism with the implicit and increasingly explicit function of social engineering,'redistributing' wealth to use the coy and sly euphemism for outright theft, from the producers to feed the non productive or semi productive whose need was now a lien on the producers and those who created the capitalist system, by means of 'progressive' (another euphemism) taxation,expressly designed to bring about social engineering and the social control of the wealth producers, reducing them to little more than slaves of the slow unimaginative dullards who had now become the new royalty by dint of their relative uselessness.

And here we are today with a massive expansion of the state into all areas of people's private lives to the stultification of the polity,a sclerosis of economics and productivity and a general malaise of fear and suspicion where none dare speak the truth about practically anyything for fear of what state operatives may do to them. Will they end up in jail for speaking their minds now?

Thus the Churchillian warning, roundly scoffed at and criticised at the time about what the introduction of the Welfare State would inevitably necessitate: a police Gestapo State has come to pass. Welcome to the future.It has now arrived.

Before I interrupted myself  and digressed, the point is the Capitalist Party would phase taxation out over a generation. There would have to be a cut off point where people no longer receive benefits of any kind,say 30 35 and are given due warning to start saving for their retirement. They would of course be reimbursed for any tax they have paid up to that point.The welfare of all the rest above that age would have to be honoured since they paid into that wacky system and are owed what is due to them and not to do so would be arbitrary,dictatorial and immoral.

These are logistical matters that belong to the science and philosophy of government and law of course but are far from insuperable and the general direction of travel is hopefully indicated.