I have long believed the chronic problem with the developed world is the tax burden ordinary people bear so an ever growing state can exist.

Don’t people realise it’s possible to live on VERY little and if the transactions you make don’t involve money, it’s hard for anyone else to get “a piece of the action”? Not everyone can get their water from a well like me and we need utilities but why do we need to pay VAT on our gas, electricity and water bills?

People spend money to join a gym so they can ride a fake cycle inside without actually moving. Why not ride a real bike for free to the shops in the open air instead and actually achieve something for free for your time and energy? If we learn to live on very little, we complete fewer transactions and starve our governments of the funds they need to live in the style to which they have become accustomed.

Most of the things that make us ill are expensive and hard to produce at home. Sweets, alcohol and tobacco would become expensive luxuries we’d learn to live without and we’d be healthier as a result. I never bothered getting my van and car fixed and find I bike to the shops and post office once a week for milk, yeast, sugar, flour, salt, fruit, salad, veg, herbs and spices (that I can’t grow myself). For protein, I have my own hens and trout in the lake over the road, I have beans and lentils sprouting on my windowsill alongside lettuce. If you want plants in your house, grow ones you can eat.

Drug companies would shelve R&D into diseases that went away of their own accord, dentists and doctors would have no rotting teeth or furred up arteries to diagnose.

If you want small government, reduce your own mini economy, slow down, work as much as you need to live a simple, frugal life, get rid of addictions to anything bad for you that needs funding with hard work because of the taxes imposed by government. Just think what kind of a life you could have if you were fitter, had a more clear head and had more time?

We can barter between ourselves. No permits needed, no VAT on food (as there is in many “developed” countries”) ….. if WE downsize, how the hell will our governments live off the meagre amount of money they get from us? Let the doctors fight over the few people rich and stupid enough to insist on making themselves ill.

I know some people will reply to this saying the national health services will fall apart and doctors will go out of business but I believe a lot of illnesses are self inflicted by the lifestyles many people choose to adopt and doctors made a living long before the national health service was formed.

We’d need to ensure sanitation and the water supply stayed intact as well as other utilities. I’m fascinated by the recent history in Japan when the Japanese just saved and saved and spent next to nothing. The government there I think had a minus interest rate (in that they would pay you to borrow money to start a business or build / buy something)

We are the goose that lays the golden eggs. Without our labours, elites have nothing to cream profits from. I’m not suggesting we go on strike completely. I would just like to see millions of people working as much as they needed to live a frugal, healthier and slower life. We need so little to live healthily. Why beat ourselves up creating wealth for others?

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