He collects taxes and makes laws.And this makes him a government how?
He collects taxes and makes laws.
As a simple homeowner I don't do either.
The article in question calls them that and that's what we've been discussing. I'm sorry you apparently got off course.Well, if you call rent taxes then I can see why you believe what you believe. I don't consider a landlord to be a government. Maybe when I hear renters regularly refer to their rent as taxes I'll change my mind.
Many libertarians overlook the fact that a landlord is a government. The more territory a landlord controls, the more obvious it is that a landlord is a government (in fact, that is the origin of the word “landlord”). Within the territory he controls, a landlord collects taxes (which he calls by the euphemism of “rent”), and makes laws (which he calls by the euphemism of “lease conditions”).
In addition, some landlords have their own security guards to defend their territory, just as city and state levels of government have their own police, or a national level of government has its own military. Some landlords also have their own arbitration process, just as other levels of government have their own court systems.
This. I support our form of government, because I've not heard anything better proposed.
That certainly doesn't mean we don't have problems, but I don't see them as being nearly as severe as some others do, and I think they're fixable, if people only cared enough.
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I very much like representative democracy and separation of powers. They are a good way to keep power from concentrating in too few hands. It's capitalism that's the problem. It's the money in politics. It's that our representatives and our elections are for sale. The system of government is pretty good, though certainly not perfect. Allowing it to be sold to the highest bidder is what is destroying it. The closest poll choice I will do is the "I’m among the 80% - 85% but think it’s not the system but the people running it." choice, but it's not really the people running it that I object to. It's the people who own it.
I don't know what "neoliberalism" is or what it has to do with your comment, but the rest of it is spot on.
I disagree. A landlord is still subject to the laws of the government. For example, the government forbids, say, murder. If a landlord truly were a government, he could declare murder legal in his "country". He can't.
Because he's not a government.
Well, if you call rent taxes then I can see why you believe what you believe. I don't consider a landlord to be a government. Maybe when I hear renters regularly refer to their rent as taxes I'll change my mind.
Maybe you could explain how rent is different from other taxes (besides in name).
Rent is taxable income for those who receive it.