Negative income tax

Why don't we impliment this? it seems like the answer to so many problems, is it because the IRS is to afraid of fraud?

Gah. This is getting long. Lemme try to make it short.

1. If it doesn't matter that taxation is theft, why don't I just steal all your shit? It doesn't make it right just because the government is doing it.

2. Land ownership isn't theft. It was unowned, and someone took ownership of it. Man had no inherent right of birth to a portion of the earth, so taking ownership of it was theft from nobody, and if you can't say who specifically was stolen from, you can't say that any theft occured in the first place.

3. The Free Market isn't perfect. It doesn't know absolutely everything. However, the knowledge of a few regulating and economy-directing bureaucrats is far more imperfect than the market's knowledge for the simple reason that one person making decisions for millions can't possibly know as much as those millions individually making decisions for themselves.

4. Your anticommons example sucks because patents aren't a free market phenomenon, they're a government-created one. The free market is voluntary exchange and private property. If there is involuntary exchange, it's not free, if there isn't private property, there's no market. Your example involves involuntary exchange, thus is not free market. The involuntary exchange is when the government threatens to imprison or fine patent violators. Since the "offender" can't opt-out of the interaction, it's involuntary and not a free-market occurance.

5. Being diabetic makes you more consumptive of insulin, that just means you have to produce more stuff and exchange it for insulin to maintain the same standard of living as everyone else.

6. Sucks for Sweden. Try repealing socialism and see what your economy does.

7. No individual is dependant upon a capitalists. All individuals can independantly break free from the capitalists if they really want to. They either don't, or they think they're best off not doing so. That doesn't ean they're dependant, it just means they think the arrangement is better than all alternatives.

8. If you don't have skills, blame the schools. There's a lot of USEFUL stuff they could have thought you when you were in the gym. Blame the bureaucrats. My school taught me nothing useful after the 5th grade that I wouldn't have learned myself without their help, and it taught me a lot of shit I certainly did not need to know. That's what happens when you let some faceless bureaucrat set the curriculum. They make stupid decisions and somebody somewhere loses out.