Bastiat died prior to the Civil War, and the onerous burden of income taxes that thereafter became the primary parasitic sustenance of government. While that parasitism has the obvious drawbacks Bastiat reveals, tariffs are parasitic on society generally, while income taxes parasitize each civilian directly, and thus are unable to be avoided by careful consumption. Unfortunately, rather than having a choice between tariffs and income taxes today, we are going to be afflicted by both, which only increases the suffering of civilians whose economic productivity is the feast of the parasitic state.

Even the replacement of the state with a global Fascist technocracy will not relieve our suffering such parasitism, as it is unimaginable that the noxious corporate profiteers that intend to replace Republican government will be less rapine than constitutionally restrained government.

What I have endeavored to devise is a means of economic participation that eschews money itself, which is the vector of parasitism common to all our predators. I reckon it is financial means that are subjected to parasitic extraction via taxation, fees, fines, and etc, and by focusing on actual wealth rather than money, the blood funnels of the parasites seeking money overlook such means as I attain.

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