@spendius,
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Do you seriously think there would be any incomes to tax
if there was no taxation?
In other words:
do the citizens depend upon government
for the existence of an economy and can economic prosperity exist
in the absence of government ?
I cannot, in candor, hold myself out as some hot-shot economist,
but I very vaguely remember reading or hearing of some
jurisdictions whose governments supported themselves
by other taxation. I understand that some Arab governments
financially subsist upon taxation of sales of oil to us,
with no taxation of their own citizens.
