Tax evaders should be sent to workhouses

Brian continues to make indignant suggestions that are both economically and morally fallacious. That this form of reasoning is considered at all rational in Britain is perhaps the best explanation of why they are now our lapdog and not the other way around. That's right, I said it. Our country is better, and if you are American (*checks site demographics*) you should vote for me. Brian acts like honestly begotten fortunes are equivalent to thievery. It is the main characteristic of the most vicious egalitarians to think that the bum who lives off welfare is truly as deserving of wealth as a doctor who labored through a decade of education and devotes 60 hours to weak to improving the health of his clients. This is the principle strategy of the politician who naturally prefers the vote of 3 bums to 2 doctors. It is clearly utterly insane. Perhaps Robin Hood ought to have rethought his methods? Of course, like the statist/socialist looter of today, he is the hero only of unclean, uneducated, and ultimately inferior people who seek only to provide at the expense of those who have actually produced something of value. It is also true that to my knowledge Robin Hood never stole from the poor and used it to kill other poor people in a faraway land, a common practice of the governments of both our countries today. Moving past the moral failure of the socialist understanding of the world, we see its even greater flaw: the total failure to understand economics. Brian complains that a rich man can park a car whether he chooses because he can afford the parking fine as though this is a bad thing. Hardly so! The parking fine can simply be set so that the charge outweighs the damage caused by the improper parking. Thus, there is a mutual benefit: the rich man may park is car where he wishes and the owner of the road profits. He will set the price so as to maximize his profits, which will also include minimizing inconvenience to other less wealthy people, who may leave and cease seeking his services. What's that you say? The roads aren't privately owned? Well, that's another instance of socialism ruining a perfectly solvable problem! Nevertheless, Brian has put forth an excellent problem for the liberation of transportation systems and ought to be commended for that, at least. Brian later complains about the overflow of prisons, which could be solved through use of the prisoners for slave labor or through additional executions, but that is not the point of the debate. The point that using the rich for slave-labor is less economically efficient than using poorer people and exploiting the rich in some other way has not been addressed, let alone solved. We could easily just loot the rich for more money than they could ever work off by raising the fines and taxes while simultaneously solving the labor shortage by enslaving bums. Because Brian's argument does not take morality into consideration at all (unless one tries to, brace for it, solve problems by increasing freedom, in which case he is met with condemnation) there can surely be no objection to this practice. In conclusion, I would ask readers to vote for me in this debate and skip the next election. Your vote will actually mean something in this debate and won't simply be for the exchange of one set of tyrants for another. Brian has not successfully defended his suggestion on moral or economic grounds, and government is the enemy of all civilization. Down with democracy, and down with Brian Eggleston! All in good fun, of course! :)