> Air traffic controllingVery little explication of the difference between indirect taxes and direct. The compromize that most libertarians propose (to anarcho-capitalists), is that indirect (viz: consumption) taxes allow freedom of choice as opposed to direct taxes (viz: 'income' taxes). I.e., don't want to pay taxes on it? don't buy it.When you buy your ticket from a commercial carrier and don't present a tax
receipt your ticket price goes WAY! up.> Food and Drug Administration approvals
When you buy food or drugs if you don't present your tax receipt then you
pay the full price for foods and drugs.
This also provides an outlet for the social do-gooders to create their utopias by vastly inflating those taxes associated with less favored consumables (tobacco, alcohol, guns, McD's, anchovies). This is not such a bad thing as it may seem, as you can always elect to vote with your feet and relocate yourself to where the local population agree with you as to what should be heavily taxed, and what not. Perhaps this is why there were multiple states in the US rather than a single homogenous state, prior to Honest (I am not a crook) Abe?
Last time I looked at it, there were 108 separate taxes included in the retail cost of an egg and 112 for a loaf of bread, so yes, I would prefer to pay the full price, sans taxes, please. The same goes for travel via airline. Not so many taxen, just heftier ones at each step -- something like 15 at last count (fuel, landing contracts, use of airspace, airport property taxes, country exit taxes ...).
Direct taxes, without apportionment to the states, are illegal in the US. Says so right there in the constitution. The 16th didn't confer any more abilities on the federal government to sidestep this restriction. In fact, direct taxes were (and legally still are), only applicable to federal employees and those who reside within the boundaries of federal jurisdiction (Washington D.C, land leased from the states, certain offshore islands such as Johnston Atoll, Guam ships and planes of federal registry ...). So if you think paying federal direct taxes is the solution to society's ills, join the federal payroll, become a ward of the state. With the direct taxes you are already (voluntarily) paying, you are already halfway there.
One question for the socialists out there; when is the promised egalitarian utopia going to kick in? It doesn't seem to be getting any closer.