To those who insists that society can still function without taxes, I urge you to just consider why there are over 400,000 orphans in the United States and over 150,000,000 around the world that still depend on their respective government's foster systems to survive. Where are these altruistic individuals that we so often hear about in narratives of no-tax utopias?
So to be clear; 51% of people are altruistic enough to provide badly for 400,000 orphans, but those same 51% that voted for the bad support those children are getting today, would not exist absent the government?
I would suggest that maybe most people don't go out of their way to help people because they expect the government to take care of it. That's pretty reasonable considering the United States Government spent $3,450,000,000,000 in 2013, since that's about twice as much money as you would need to give each of those orphans $50,000 every year for 90 years (in a one year budget, I remind you.).
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2015/assets/tables.pdfAs far as straw man arguments go, yours must be the weirdest I've encountered in a long while. Give it another try.
Also, your suggestion implies that altruism and altruistic people are holding back because someone else, i.e., the government, is doing it. That's not altruism. Altruism exists regardless of any circumstances. Suggesting that altruism will suddenly emerge in the absence of a government is, forgive my language, breathtakingly delusional.
For the record, the welfare spending for the U.S. in 2014 will amount to
$264.4 billion. That includes unemployment assistance, food programs, foster systems and many others. Walmart and Exxonmobil generate almost twice as much in revenue annually, and these two companies actually enjoy preferential tax rebates. As a percentage of GDP, the figure has been on a downward spiral for the past three decades.
I think one of the strenghts of Bitcoin is that users are ideologically various.
I've never meet a Bitcoiner in real life that was perfectly okay with paying taxes.
We should meet up then, because I am absolutely "perfectly okay with paying taxes".
We can agree on this. I'm absolutely perfectly okay with you paying taxes. Pay all the taxes you want.
Let's also agree that I am not interested to pander to your snide, childish remarks.