“Unless taxes are voluntary, it can’t strictly adhere to reciprocity.”– A commo

–“Unless taxes are voluntary, it can’t strictly adhere to reciprocity.”–
A common mistake derived from Libertarian fallacy.
Reciprocity is demanded by non-exclusion from (meaning “inclusion in”) the polity. Taxes that produce a common, are not irreciprocal, and satisfy concurrency are a cost of inclusion in the polity by defense against free riding (which is an irreciprocity) by evasion of those costs.
We can enumerate the differences by natural inclusion in a tribe vs artificial inclusion in a pseudo-tribe: polity. I suspect you’re applying the intuition of a natural involuntary inclusion (tribe) with an unnatural voluntary inclusion (polity).

Again, manifesting (Jewish Separatist) libertarian reasoning. The individual does not have the choice of defecting from the costs of the polity by any means other than exit from the benefits of the polity. And in a world of scarce non-polities that’s rather challenging


Source date (UTC): 2025-05-21 17:11:13 UTC

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