Destroying the welfare state doesn't imply the end of governments.
In my opinion, it would be good if we could focus on taxing the things that actually should be taxed: land property and pollution, and stop taxing transactions.
And it would still be egalitarian, since people who own tons of land are not poor.
> Destroying the welfare state doesn't imply the end of governments.
You might be right (nobody knows what the future holds) but that was certainly the vision May had (his .sig ended with "collapse of governments"), and it may be the vision that Bitcoin was written to promote.
Certainly a shift to a land-value tax and a pollution tax will be at least a very large dislocation. I hope it's less traumatic than the Thirty Years' War.
In my opinion, it would be good if we could focus on taxing the things that actually should be taxed: land property and pollution, and stop taxing transactions.
And it would still be egalitarian, since people who own tons of land are not poor.