The Blockchain paradox
- It's decentralized, but relays or nodes are unaffordable for average individuals, so it ends up being somehow concentrated.
- It's based on implicit trust by signature, but users feel free and anonymous.
- Value is transferred directly between individuals, but it remains on a common ledger.
- There's complete transparency of what is transferred, and at the same time a considerable opacity of who is in charge.
- It's a volatile value, but holders feel like it's safer than most traditional values.
- There are practically no trolls in a medium with no central censorship!
You can't take the fraud cases as the base rule to ditch the whole taxation system. Of course it's wrong to defraud, but most of the infrastructures in our civilization are built from public funds, and probably the US is not a good example on health and welfare, but there are very good examples in Europe. There's no discussion about the need of a taxation system. We just need a better distribution of these funds, and perhaps a harder punishment of fraud.
Who should contribute more or less is another issue. Taxes should let the productive live somehow better than unemployed, and the unproductive rich (inherited fortunes) should pay more than active businesses. Passive intermediaries should pay more than actual creators of value. And why not, Bitcoin investors should be treated like any other investor, so that taxing wouldn't discourage the effort, just as any other productive activity. I know this is not the common feeling in this forum, but hey, we're not living in the wild. If we expect roads to be there, and good, efficient public services, we must face how all this is funded.