I want to discuss a problem, and I expect to fail and for this to be buried.
I say fail because it looks like the community here strongly supports the development goal (I also do) and in this support they are willing to overlook the implications of a logical flaw that will insure long term failure.
In order to economize and generate value one must use input costs. Under free markets, failing to calculate correctly means you will lose money and once you are broke you will have no resources to continue wasting. Natural resources in our world are scarce, so losing when you make errors is a way to protect those valuable resources. Bitcoin Cash is a valuable resource too.
Paying for development work with a tax removes input costs from the calculation. Developers, no matter how capable or well intentioned, will not have the necessary inputs to economize if their work is funded using taxes. Rather, under a tax there are incentives to perform work that is higher cost, lower quality, and to instead divert resources towards justifying more tax to continue working.
This economic calculation problem was first described 100 years ago. In 1920 Ludwig von Mises wrote "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth" as a criticism of central planning. It was true then, predicted the downfall of nations, and it is still true in the same way that 2+2=4. A tax removes input costs from the calculation making it impossible to economize.
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