A decade ago when John Christensen and I were pretty rare tax justice campaigners I remember us appraising the challenges to the changes we wanted to promote. We agreed fascism was the most likely to eventually stand in our way. I think it still is.
There is no room for tax justice in a far-right state because there is no appropriate concept of justice in far-right thinking on which to base it. There is only preference, discrimination, favour and subjugation.
And that is, of course, a pretty good description of the Curajus State, isn’t it?
The Ctrl-Left always projects.
Quite so and for the left, “far-right” is meant to suggest “a long way off from where we stand” whereas the truth is that it’s their closest neighbour.
Oddly enough, he’s right in a way: there is no need for tax justice (or any other kind) in a totalitarian state because the state appropriates what it wants and if it promulgates laws that ‘legitimise’ the appropriations, that’s purely cosmetic icing on the cake.
“The Ctrl-Left always projects.”
“Ctrl-Left” – very good.
Does “rare” mean undercooked here?
It was F A Hayek who said that Fascism, National Socialism and Socialism had the same roots: central economic planning and control and empowering the State over the individual.
And Mussolini: “All within the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.”
Now Comrade, does that sound Right-wing or so very USSR?
So Fascism indeed but not from the Right, far or otherwise – Fascism IS the Left… get them a mirror somebody.
OK, let’s have a flat tax. No discrimination, favour or prejudice. And we can sack 97% of HMRC while we’re at it. Sorted!
– “tax justice”
What a fucking child.
A brownshirt movement is still a brownshirt movement, even when you insist it’s actually ‘burnt umber.’