Tax evaders should be sent to workhouses

A man is walking down a street in a neighborhood of questionable safety one night when he is set upon by a mugger. The mugger puts a gun to the man's head and demands that he forfeit all his money. Craftily, the unfortunate victim gives the mugger a fake wallet that contains only a little money and luckily escapes with his fortunate. This is exactly what a wise tax-evader does in reducing the amount of money that is unjustly mulcted from him by the unscrupulous socialist government in the name of benefiting him. Of course, to be honest, the government is much worse than the mugger: a mugger only takes your money, but the government also has the nerve to tell you what to do, claim that its act of theft is in your best interest, and insult you if you speak up for yourself. The government is in reality much worse than this mere mugger. All credit to Lysander Spooner for the above analogy [1]. Now Brian, being the filthy socialist that he is, believes that the government is entitled to take your money and spend it killing brown people on the other side of the world, giving lazy people money for not working, and funding research on things that no one cares about. When people attempt to resist this blatant act of theft, he decries them as fraudsters. How absolutely obscene! Brian is the one who has been duped: he willingly gives his money away in exchange for nothing and believes it is his duty to do so. I'd say that's a Class A fraud. Even from his deluded perspective, his solution is absolutely mad: clearly there are better ways of solving both the 'problem' of tax evasion and the competitive issues Western companies face with their Far Eastern counterparts. For instance, the rich tax evaders are probably not good workers and will not produce much. Rather than putting them to work, you could simply raise the fine. These bums would have to work for years to produce enough to outweigh the benefit of simply robbing them of a bit more of their money. The benefit to 'society' (as conceived in statist delusions) is greater. Indeed, if the fine is high enough to outweigh the probability of not catching the tax evaders, tax evasion may even raise revenue. If this is not sufficiently humiliating, extra measures could be taken, such as the tattooing of unicorns, obscene gestures, or male genitalia on the offenders. The workhouse issue also admits of easy solution. The obvious approach is to abolish the fascist, communist laws that plague Britain but not India and put the countries on equal ground. However, Brian, being a freedom-hating Stalinist, would probably insist the it is cruel to let children and poor people try to earn money to support themselves and would not allow this. Thus, I offer another solution: upon abolishing the tyrannical institution of the British government, we can put the burglars, murders, and slave drivers who had been at its helm to work in these factors to pay off the debt they owe to their victims. I fail to see how anyone could offer a cogent argument for the continuation of the state, so this point ought to stand. In conclusion, Brian's plan is both morally insane and suboptimal even within his deluded, Orwellian framework. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org...