Difference between revisions of "Taxation is rent; non-payment of taxes is squatting."

With the state as the ultimate owner, fee simple property is really rented from government through property tax.  Work and business conducted in the territory are also subject to taxes for the privilege of using the territory.  Some libertarians whine "So you argue that no one ever owns anything? The state does? And we simply rent the land we own from the state? And that is fine with you?"  The answer is obviously yes: that's the way it works for property ownership in almost all circumstances.  The market has spoken: the value of fee simple property is many trillions of dollars.  You don't have to be the ultimate owner to benefit from property.  And it is easier and probably cheaper to rent and let the landlord worry about defense and other things like that for the same reason that most of us do not self insure.

Of course this real anarchocapitalism differs from libertarian daydreams.  Instead of hiring protection agencies, states defend themselves.  Instead of having a granularity of individuals, there is a granularity of geographical territories.  Instead of having polycentric law from protection agencies, the polycentric law does not overlap because of territories.  That's the real result of anarchocapitalism, and it would be up to libertarians to find viable means to change it.