[rbanffy]

> a group of people impose a 1-3% tax on their population.

It seems the consensus is that a taxes are only bad if you have to pay the government. If it's a small set of companies that collectively own a virtual monopoly, it's because they earned it.

[contingencies]

Competition is for losers. - Peter Thiel

[Qem]

This is probably the Holy Grail of neoliberalism: Even taxes are privatized!

[sowbug]

If half my local plumber's profits go to private equity, it's capitalism. If half go to taxes, it's socialism.