Skallagrim
Well-known member
"Nations in aggregate" sounds exactly like "tyranny of the majority". I'm not a fan. I'm also not in favour of people paying their taxes. In fact, as I've said many times before, I'm explicitly in favour of summarily executing all tax-collectors. They are not entitled to what I earn from my labour. If they want to rob me at gun-point, they're entitled to as humane a death as I can give them.Yes, I'm also in favor of people paying their taxes.
As for paying twice, that depends on if you get more than one benefit from society. If one has both, say, usable roads and a military protecting them from warlords one could fairly say they've gained two benefits and should thus pay twice.
And yes, it can lead to socialism if carried too far. As with anything, going to an absurd extreme is going to have bad results. It's up to the nations in aggregate to decide where they lie on the spectrum.
If you want to offer a membership that provides benefits that you believe I'll enjoy, then make the offer. If it's reasonable, I'll subscribe and pay the fee. But if you put a gun to my head and call it "justice", I'll happily murder you the first chance I get. My loyalty can be earned, but never forced. That's only human. And that's also why conscript armies, incidentally, are fucking dumb.