Free Tax Project
Meta
Status
- Work in progress
- Please feel free to edit
- Please help to correct the grammar in this wiki page: thank you:)
To do
- Extract of conversation w Michael & Kevin
Concept
'Free' tax means libre tax and, at the same time, optionally gratis tax (c.f.: Wikipedia: Gratis versus Libre, The Free Software Definition and The Open Source Definition).
The Project as the Greatest Common Divisor
The Free Tax Project is defined as the Greatest Common Divisor among
- p2p movements
- Hackerspaces
- Pirate Parties
- Micronations
- "State hack" projects (first steps in this direction: Free State Project and Icelandic Modern Media Initiative)
- The United Persons
- (who else?).
Subprojects
The subprojects should be defined as the necessary and sufficient open system moduls for the project.
At first, we should have
- (Sustainable Creativity) an ethical basis for independent tax in the form of a firm conception of sustainable creativity
- (Independent Money) money (incl. the infrastructure for other secure communication) independent of states
- (Independent Tax) the option to pay our tax on bits independent of states
- (Pacification) the option to avoid double taxation of bits by states
- (Participation) the infrastructure to spend our taxes by means of our participation, and
- (Customary Law) laws revealed by our customs of our communities on the internet, and
- (Formal Ontology) a machine readable formal ontology for all above.
Sustainable Creativity
Independent Money
Problems
Solutions
Reference
- p2pfoundation.net/Category:Money
- Michael's delicious P2P-Money links
- qp's Zotero money collection
- qp's delicious money links
Independent Tax
Tax on bits independent of states
- default rate > 0
- option out (i.e., e-cash)
The 0% tax rate does not mean gratis transaction: the costs of transaction and tax rates are not the same concepts.
Reference
- p2pfoundation.net/Category:Taxation
- Michael's delicious P2P Tax links
- Smart Taxes Network (Michaels's favorite tax-project)
- qp's Zotero tax collection
- qp's delicious tax links
Pacification
- default: no double taxation
- option out (i.e., pay taxes on bits to states as well)
Reference
- p2pfoundation.net/Category:Security
- Michael's delicious security / P2P-Warfare links
- qp's Zotero conditions / warfare / 4th generation warfare collection
Participation
Reference
- Michael's delicious participation, collective choice systems and P2P-Governance links
- qp's Zotero voting and nudges collections
- qp's delicious voting and governance links
Customary Law
Customary law does not mean that we should avoid prescriptive laws or constitutions: it just means that we should review and appreciate the experiences we acquired through our cooperation of different kinds on the internet.