Privacy Rights Get Violated… Twice.
Yea I know they don’t use this currency anymore… it’s just so much cooler than the boring Euro.
So Italy made a serious faux pas by releasing the salary details of all of its citizens for a reason that I couldn’t possibly comprehend. Of course this deliberate and obvious breach of citizen’s privacy rights wouldn’t have been possible without the first breach of privacy — requiring all citizens to report their personal income and keep accounting records.
OK, OK, I know my views in this matter might be in the minority. But Personal Income Tax is a breach of the basic privacy of the individual that wouldn’t be done in a truly free society. One of the basic human rights should be the Right Not To Do Accounting. You can force corporations (which are imaginary legal constructs that are created and destroyed at the whim of the people and have no inherent rights whatsoever) to do pretty much anything, including full accounting statements on a monthly basis for sales tax, corporate income tax, this tax, that tax, and I’m all for that. But requiring citizens to report their income and do accounting is telling the populace a very strong and obvious message: WE OWN YOU, NOW PAY UP, BITCHES.
Jeff :: May.01.2008 :: News 'n' Commentary :: No Comments »
