Can a monarch impose taxation on the citizens?
The State and the Nation are the private properties of the monarch. Without the presence of citizens, the monarch would not be in a position to have economic activities and economic growth. More precisely, the monarch would not be in a position to enrich himself without the presence of laborers.
Because of the degree of necessariness of the citizens, the monarch must not impose any form of taxation. It is the monarch who must pay a salary to the citizens because of their economic value and productive value.
Because of the degree of necessariness of the citizens, the monarch must not impose any form of taxation. It is the monarch who must pay a salary to the citizens because of their economic value and productive value.
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The idea that the state and the nation are the private property of the monarch, and that he therefore owes a salary to his citizens, reduces political rule to a purely economic relationship. In this model, citizens appear primarily as productive assets, whose value derives from their usefulness to the monarch. But rulership cannot be understood through economics aloneit rests on power, legitimacy, law, and social order.
As its said in Game of Thrones: Power is power. Rule is not legitimized by economic utility, but by actual powerand the ability to preserve it wisely. A monarch does not rule because he pays, but because he maintains power and secures loyalty. The first rule of any ruler, therefore, is to preserve powerfor historically, every monarch is only one bad harvest away from being beheaded.