Affairs: Taxes - History of Taxation

Genies

Various kinds of taxes were levied historically.

Taxing

There are dangers involved in taxes, particularly in the long term, due to the ability of corruption to infiltrate government, government institutions, and the essential components of the state such as police force,s military, judiciary and legal, and health and social care and welfare.

The state of the now deeply and broadly corrupted United Kingdom is a case in point:

Medieval England - Taxation

Taxation: now taxing Peter to pay Peter, or, robbing Peter to pay Peter. This is real power for here we have the power to rob Peter AND Paul and then refuse to pay them back. The power held by those who have the power to decide has unlimited potential. It is the basis of communism, and gives the totalitarian kind of power that Communism needs in order to impose itself (or be imposed by those with the power) upon the people.

The video in the column on the right outlines this point in relation to Australia's current inflated government supported by inflated taxation.

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