The state doesn’t tax because it needs money.
It can print that.
Taxes exist to steal the value of your labor.
Taxes are a system of legal coercion designed to extort value from producers and redirect it toward political ends.
Once you see this, the tax code stops being confusing.
It becomes revealing.
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The tax code is not neutral.
It punishes prudence. It punishes productivity.
It punishes saving in depreciating currency.
And it selectively spares those who deploy capital into productive systems.
Two systems of taxation exist:
• One for those who understand the incentives
• One for everyone else
“Rules for thee, but not for me.”
The current administration is taking this idea and sprinting with it.
The national debt is approaching $40 Trillion and you can’t tax your way out of that.
The only options are to:
Print your way out of it
Grow your out of it
The so-called ‘Big Beautiful Bill” exists to do both:
Spend (via money printing)
Tax deductions for business owners through bonus depreciation
Bonus depreciation isn’t generosity. It’s a desperate attempt to “stimulate” growth.
An economic hail-mary that business owners can stimulate enough long-term real economic growth to offset monetary debasement.
The parallels between money and dopamine are fascinating. Both are reward systems. Both are optimized when built on the principle of proof-of-work. Money that is produced without effort (corrupt money) is the bane of civilization (rewards coercion, funds endless warfare, motivates deception and propaganda). Similarly, dopamine that is obtained without effort kills the brain's reward system for hard work. Corrupt money and cheap dopamine both borrow from future humans without their consent.
Hubmerman (@hubermanlab) On Dopamine:
“The pursuit of dopamine divorced from effort is a recipe for long-term suffering.”
“High dopamine without effort leads to a collapse in baseline dopamine, which makes life feel dull, effortful, and unmotivating.”
“If you continually seek dopamine from sources that require little to no effort, you will eventually lose your capacity to experience motivation and pleasure from effortful things.”
Dopamine spikes always come with a subsequent drop below baseline
When dopamine is earned through effort, the baseline recovers stronger
When dopamine is acquired without effort, the baseline drops and stays lower
To paraphrase Huberman in summary:
When you acquire dopamine without effort, you are borrowing dopamine from your future, and the bill always comes due. Cheap dopamine is the devil.
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Central banking doesn’t merely distort prices; it distorts vox populi—the voice of the people—by re-weighting which preferences become economically actionable.