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All of us, whether citizens of this country or people who live here for whatever reason, pay taxes to the state. To put it in a nutshell: even a homeless person who buys his bottle of beer in the supermarket, financed with handouts, pays taxes.
The state needs taxes in order to fulfill its original tasks and to pay for the necessary personnel.
One could definitely argue about the following two points, on the one hand what the original tasks of the state actually are and on the other hand for whom the state provides these services.
The fact is, however, that the state collects taxes, duties and fees from all of us in order to be able to fulfill its tasks. In our case, this also includes a redistribution apparatus to feed the “weaker” among us.
Another fact is that taxes, duties and fees are constantly rising, and that the national debt is also rising to exorbitant heights, meaning that our state is constantly spending more than it earns - even if this has recently been happily calculated.
It is also a fact that we all suffer from it, but especially those who have too little income to be able to exonerate themselves through tax lawyers, but too much to enjoy some "distributions" from the state - this leads to increasing resentment in our society.
But the essential fact is that the one I used in other contributions have already named, the redistribution apparatus has gotten out of hand and we have long since lost control of it.
For all of us, this means that we have to pay more and more taxes, duties and fees, ultimately so much that all our income and assets go to the "state" or at least are controlled by it, and then we by the distribution apparatus - depending on how how we behave or how we are classified by the distribution apparatus - receiving funds in order to be able to "live" - this is how socialism has been implemented through the back door.
The distribution apparatus has long since identified the culprit, or rather the scapegoat, namely capitalism, which has "run down" everything in our country. The next thing to come is the idea of freedom, which calls the apparatus of distribution into question; these are the revanchists.
Please don't get me wrong: a welfare state and redistribution are necessary and right!
My point is that redistribution has expanded and shaped in such a way that I can only describe these excesses as a redistribution apparatus that has long since ceased to fulfill its very own tasks, but instead calls our social system into question as a whole.
what to do
We citizens must regain control, which primarily includes control over state finances.
The state does not control our finances, soon even through the digital currency, which will make us completely transparent, although we would also have to pay for this through new fees, but we all have to be able to control how much “our” state takes in (hic: Soli ) and above all, on whom or what he spends our money.
In order to regain control, we must first and foremost ensure that the staffing level of the redistribution apparatus is kept to a minimum.
To do this, we have to merge and reduce the institutions of the apparatus, and also separate the link between state and private aid again.
In addition, we also have to endure the fact that the "aids" that we all love so much, such as e.g. B. building allowance, child benefit, solar allowance, commuter allowance should at least be put to the test.
This will certainly require more commitment and responsibility from all of us, but it will slowly but surely give us back control of our own state, and then also completely new possibilities, e.g. B. how we ourselves believe that we have to protect ourselves and those of us who were less fortunate or just showed less commitment.
Because we citizens do not live for the state! We live for ourselves, and the state is a tool to make our lives as pleasant as possible - not the other way around.
"There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly."
Henry David Thoreau, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849)
