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Un-Licensed-Un-Numbered-Un-Taxed by Carl Watner
An example of creeping statism, if there was ever one, is the now widespread use of social security numbers. No one, I daresay, could have predicted back in the late 1930s when the program was begun, that 60 years later it would almost be impossible to live and work without such a government identification number. There are some conscientious objectors who prefer to remain individuals rather than embrace a statist system which licenses, numbers, and taxes them in hundreds of ways. One of the most pervasive ways that government controls us is by regulating our right to travel over the geographic areas they have coercively monopolized. Each of the fifty state governments of the United States has a comprehensive motor vehicle and driver code which governs our movements. Generally, they accomplish this by requiring 1) that every driver of a motorized vehicle be licensed, and 2) that every vehicle traveling upon state roads be registered and tagged. A citizen cannot claim a right to travel upon roads that his fuel taxes and general tax monies have helped build. The states have created monstrous bureaucracies which have conditioned us into accepting state control over our lives, and which levy and collect extremely large amounts of money in sales and excise taxes, licensing fees (from both driver permits and license tags), and collections from fines and penalties for violations of their so-called laws. In short, the motor vehicle licensing monopoly is big, big, business and because motorized transport has become an integral way of life to us, it becomes extremely difficult to escape the tentacles of the state. The state rests on might: therefore it should be rejected. Without coercive governments, many people would surely remain un-numbered, un-licensed, and un-taxed. Excerpt reprinted with permission from The Voluntaryist, June 1994. For complete article, write and request a free sample copy of The Voluntaryist, P.O. Box 1275, Grambling, South Carolina 29348
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