I’m Moving to Switzerland

Long live Switzerland.

I MUST provide a link to an article in the New York Times from this morning. My regular readers will be all too aware of my strong feelings towards individual liberty and privacy. But to hear it from a liberal European…and in the New York Times…oh my goodness.

As worldwide governments concentrate their own coercive-Statist power, people are resisting. As worldwide governments seek to extract more and more wealth from the People, the People are moving their money around to preserve it. Many countries are considered “tax-havens” either due to very low overall tax rates or refusal to cooperate with outside countries’ investigations into their own tax evaders…or both.

Switzerland falls into the latter category. They have long viewed privacy above all. They are now under extreme pressure from the Statists in the US and EU to open up their banks’ books to allow eyes open to anyone they view as an enemy–mostly guilty in the desire to preserve private property from Statist redistribution efforts.

My own view: why not restrict all taxation to commerce at it’s end point–at the retail point of sale? It’s easy to administer. It’s fair, flat, and most importantly, it’s visible. And it respects private property rights.

Talk about a new world order–imagine a world where people keep what they earn anywhere in the world. They can hold private property anywhere in the world with protection. They can site their company wherever in the world it is most advantageous and not have to worry too much about the tax consequences. They can trade their goods anywhere in the world without having to hire a herd of attorneys to navigate tariff, trade, and tax laws. They can live wherever they feel the government best serves their interests, forcing governments to actively compete for citizenship.

Imagine such a world. It all starts and ends in the tax code.