The Dark Powers of Taxation

Taxation is at best a necessary evil because we don’t trust each other to do the right thing for our society. But it is an evil that inevitably corrupts the governing organization with dark powers, and oppresses the citizens it was meant to provide for, to serve itself.

-Digital preservation of writings of Gautama Prat, Common Archives of the Great Society

Ideal of a Great Society

“In a sane and rational society, sane and rational people would be free to live freely as they choose, no need to be governed. People and societies who do oppress and harm others, and are thus not sane and rational, need to be governed.”

Digital preservation of writings of Gautama Prat, Common Archives of the Great Society