Why Pay Taxes To A Kleptocracy?

It is indeed an ominous sign when a leading business daily publishes an editorial on "India's treacherous roads." The editors of Mint say:

The major estimates are startling: there were 4,90,000 accidents in 2009, killing around 1,25,000 people, and injuring almost five times as many. Beyond the numbers, it shows that accidents have refused to decrease in number despite better and wider road networks. Indeed, estimates suggest the number of road accident deaths in 2010 was close to 1,60,000.

This means that if we add fatalities to injuries, there are over 10,00,000 victims of our treacherous roads every year. There were far less casualties  in the Kargil War! We are "unsafe" on the streets. We might well be far safer in war.

In Goa, over 300 people are killed every year on the roads, and many, many more injured, including lots of foreign tourists. Not a day passes by when the local papers do not mention a road accident death.

All that the cops here do is hang around to impose fines on those who don't wear seat-belts or helmets! 

And, of course, they have the Anti-Narcotics Corps (ANC) who hassle all those "good people" who peddle substances that make tourists happy. And these cops "collect" their huftha: an "illegal tax."

Indeed, just the other day, the chief of Goa Police declared Goa to be a "safe destination" - in these words:

"You get a feeling of safety while moving on the beaches in Goa. There have been some wrong impressions created about Goa and that needs to be corrected. I can say with certainty that Goa is not an unsafe destination," Bassi told reporters.

I, on the other hand, when advising foreign tourists, always tell them to be EXTREMELY CAREFUL on our roads. 

Only the other day, a middle-aged English couple asked me how they could best get to Anjuna (in North Goa) from where we were - Canacona, in South Goa, some 100 km away. Should they drive there on their hired scooter? they asked. I advised them to hire a taxi - and relax on the back seat with a bottle of wine. "It is too dangerous to drive here," I told them.

Note that road safety ought to be a priority - and a specialisation - for the officers of the Indian Police Service (IPS). Yet, it is most certainly not. This is an area they completely overlook when they talk about how "safe" we are. Mint is right when they say that road safety for  pedestrians, cyclists, scooterists and motorcyclists should be a matter of TOP PRIORITY - since they are the "most vulnerable." But in Socialist India, there is no "equality" - and the poor get fucked: right there on the streets.

What do the cops do? That is, apart from VVIP security. 

Do read Bruce Benson's The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without The State which says how we can happily exist without any "criminal justice system" - by imposing fines on all "crimes against the individual," which are Torts. There are no "crimes against The State" in a stateless "private-law society." That is the direction in which our country must head - in my opinion.

Indeed, why just the cops: What does the whole fucking government do? Apart from MGNREGA. And Air India. 

Why do we pay taxes at all? For what "goods and services"?

I conclude with what the BRASS SIGN on my door says:

TAX COLLECTORS WILL BE SHOT!

(This is not a threat; this is a prophesy)

It makes no sense to pay taxes to kleptocrats.

Think about it. And revolt!