Anyways, hopefully someone finds this multi-hop SCP useful anyway.

Otago uni. are just plain weird when it comes to internet access.

I probably should have written this into the post, but c’est la vie. There are two main reasons why I wrote that line.

1. When the State taxes people, it is essentially saying that their property does not belong to them – that it can be taken by others, by force, for any purpose that those others deem important. When you vote to have agents of the State violate people’s right to private property, and you remove the owner’s right to defend his property, then you automatically create a situation where the State feels it can trespass upon privately owned land, for whatever reasons they choose, unlawfully interfere with the private actions of citizens and use force on any who refuse to comply. The logic is precisely the same, namely:

The State can violate your right to private property for its own purpose -> Resistance to this violation is met with force.

2. Taxation is the lifeblood of the State. Without it, the State is powerless to effect the kind of breach that we see in the second video. More taxation necessitates an increase in the apparatus of the State to both collect (steal) those taxes and to spend them as it sees fit. Taxation, both in concept and in practice, vastly skews the balance of power in favour of the State.

Let’s take the United States, for example. New York has one of the worst reported rates of misuse of police power, and New Hampshire has the best (afaik). New York is one of the most taxed states in the Union. new Hampshire has no state income or sales tax.

TL;DR – Larger State = More Abuses of Power

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