TAXES

Which only proves the need for People to keep an eye on their
government and be willing to breath down their necks hard. Making
elected officials responcible for the actions of the burocrats and
judges they appoint is something People have got to do.

Governments are by nature corrupt but that does not mean there's
nothing people can do. They have to organize.

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophile"
wrote:
>
> --- In spacesettlers, "Bill" wrote:
>
> > It still is a mute point. The local government can collect the
taxes
> > when you use the countries legal currency to purchase the paypal
> > money or any other type of money.
>
> I suppose they can at that.
>
> > Once you have the paypal money do as you please the taxes are
> > already paid.
>
> Well, as long as they don't tax it out of existance, so what?
> Governments need movey to build roads.
>
> > Also if this becomes too big of a problem, there is nothing
> > stopping the local authorities from banning purchase of pay pal
>
> Might be tough to enforce, but yeah, if they can ban a chemical
> almost the same as that found in nutmeg just because they don't
like
> the idea of people having fun, then they can ban the buying of pay
> pal. Then again, look how effective the ban on happiness chemicals
> has (not) been.
>
> > money or the outright closing of the organization.
>
> I doubt that the government of Texas can shut down a company in
Tokyo.
>
> > I, in Canada, was part of a online organization that did
explicitly
> > barter online in my local area (mostly services, but used, and
> > sometimes new commodity where normal) and when the organization
> > became just a little to lucrative the Federal government raided on
> > tax fraud and that was the end of that.
>
> Feds overriding locals. Not locals overriding the whole world
(much
> less the entire Solar System).
>
> > I don't know what happened to the principals of the company, but
> > they had enough data on everyone participating to also charge them
> > if they so desired. They did not.
>
> This is the scary part. The government shouts "CHILD
PORNAGRAPHY!!"
> or, in these post 9/11 days, "TERRORISTS!!!" and people willfully
> give away all rights to privacy. Most of the information gathered
on
> people has nothing to do with stopping kiddy porn or terrorists,
but
> it is very useful for this kind of thing, as well as for stifling
> political dissent. Let anybody suggest this and "YOU'RE A PEDIFILE
> PERVERT ON THE SIDE OF THE TERRORISTS!!!!!!!!!!"
>
> > The black and grey markets have been around for centuries, but
when