Taxation is one of the most misunderstood parts of our society. While being mostly politically opposed, we are in agreement with the errors surrounding taxation and spending at the federal level. That said, we disagree on who benefits from those errors.

The primary function of taxation is to drive acceptance of a currency that the state can create at will to provision itself. One can trade in any form of currency (grocery coupons are technically a currency) but when the tax man shows up with the full force of government behind him it is best to have the currency he demands to avoid penalty and seizure of one's property.

Taxes make everyone unemployed in terms of the government's currency until they can satisfy the tax burden in that currency. This drives resources and labor into the private sector where they are available to the currency issuing government without necessitating a revenue stream.

Placing the government in a position similar to a household, demanding that it, the monopoly source of all net monetary assets, "find" money to spend, defies this purpose and weakens the government's ability to present a force for good in the society by funding the public purpose. This is largely due to the misunderstanding of the currency-issuing government's role in society and of the currency itself, which is only a tax credit at its core.

Taxation, and borrowing as well, have never been "funding mechanisms" for a sovereign currency-issuing government. They can limit inflation and achieve social distribution goals, but can never "fund" spending at the federal level in spite of all the talk in Congress about "payfors". The real theft of our resources and labor happens when the government "balances" its budget and claws back all payments made for those from the private sector.