When there is no state, people live better and earn more. The state is simply supposed to be an organizer and spreader of wealth, i.e. their task is to organize for security, friendly turf for buisnesses to thrive and allow for competitions, but today most states do not do this and most citizens are sad and dissatisfied.

There is still a lot of money going around, but it comes out of the pockets of citizens and is eaten up by politicians and their crew in the name of building the economy.

Since part of happiness is economic well-being, having food and a house and finally having a minimum to live on, always linked to one's own earnings, so when someone tells me that the important thing is to be well, I say yes, you are well in the sense of your physical health, but also if you have an iron health, but all day long you bang your head because you don't have a dollar or a Ghanaian cedi, you are not healthy.

You will need money to transport yourself or loved ones to the hospital and money is needed to pay for your health. so it is not true that money is not important, on the contrary, it is as important as health.

One has to learn to detach oneself or leaves the so-called leech states if one really wants to, by going to other states where the management of the public sector is less oppressive and they don't kill you with taxes where they don't constantly snoop around, i.e. they don't care to know about your private life.

Another solution is to play smart against the state because if the state is intrusive, you have to act like this.

You live in a big city block of flats where the concierge is very intrusive and wants to know everything about you where she tells you that you have to take care of the plants, you have to keep your doormat tidy and you have to clean your personal bicycle parked in the courtyard of the block of flats and in theory this could be fine since it is still a block of flats and by law you have to share the common areas with the other neighbours.

But the situation degenerates when the same concierge starts to approach with her ears to the door of your flat because she wants to know how much you earn, what you do and where you go, at which point you have two options: number one, you change condominium or number two, you make fun of the concierge, protecting your privacy.

I used these metaphors because leaving one's block of flats actually means changing state or country, or staying in and fooling the concierge would be playing cunningly against the state in the end.

Today, life is about organisation, i.e. always planning what is best for yourself and your loved ones, otherwise you always run the risk of being blackmailed by oppressor states that want your savings at all costs, i.e. you run the risk of being slaves in short.

If you want to live a decent life, you don't have to say how nice it is to pay a lot of taxes, and if you pay a lot of taxes, it means that you earn a lot of money, but sooner or later that money will be taken from you because that is how it works in the oppressor states.

When they tell us that you have to be fair and you have to pay all your taxes, I fully agree but only if the state is not a state of crooks, blackmailers and always wants to have control over your private lives.

Taxes should be paid when a state lets you live and treats you as a taxpayer and not as a tax slave so if the state controls me, persecutes me and does not let me use my money then it means that the state wants to cheat me and you have to defend yourself by playing cunningly.

If you have poor social services, you live poorly socially but you always pay a lot of taxes, the least you could do would be to create a tax strike, i.e. no longer pay taxes because the money ends up in the pockets of politicians and their friends and family.

The oppressor state is your enemy because history teaches us that where a state lets its citizens go free and its burden is minimal, life is better and that is a fact, as has been the case in Switzerland for centuries for example.

Peter Bismark is the Executive Director of the Institute for Liberty and Policy Innovation. He is a pro-freemarket for prosperity advocate and business regulatory consultant. 

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