Viri Ríos's fiscal fascism

In Mexico, a new political religion has taken hold: the cult of the State as the sole agent of good. This faith is not practiced in temples or with cassocks, but rather from academia, tax offices, and social media. Its priests are moralizing bureaucrats and militant economists who see the autonomous citizen as a threat.

Three statements are enough to illustrate this delusion:

1. Viri Ríos, October 23, 2024:
"Uber is lying, but if it were true that its business only survives because it has 250,000 people working for them without social security, then yes, let it leave."

2. Viri Ríos, October 21, 2021:
Donors "take credit for what is not theirs." By deducting taxes, they steal from the State the authority to decide the fate of that money.

3. Margarita Ríos-Farjat, April 5, 2019 (as head of SAT):
"The tax to be paid is not our money, it is the nation's money."

These three statements, more than technical or ideological positions, reveal a political theology based on the denial of the individual. In this creed, the money you earn doesn't really belong to you. The freedom to work, donate, or choose your way of life is subordinated to the State's moral judgment. Anyone who acts outside the fiscalist framework is, by definition, an impostor, a tax evader, a traitor to the nation.

This is not about social justice. This is about total control.

Anyone who donates without state intermediation usurps divine functions. Anyone who works without benefits, even if out of necessity, perpetuates the original sin of the market. Anyone who doesn't pay taxes enthusiastically is not Mexican enough.

This is not progressivism. This is accounting fascism disguised as virtue.

Behind these statements lies a transpersonalist ideology that considers the individual as a means to the state project. It is the echo of Hegel: "The State, the laws, the constitutions are the ends; the individual must place himself at their service."

This is why they are not bothered if 250,000 people lose their livelihood if Uber leaves. What matters is not the concrete lives of those workers, but that the model fits the bureaucratic ideal. If they do not fit in Excel, let them disappear. Their well-being doesn't matter. Their obedience does.

The problem is not Uber, nor donations, nor taxes. The problem is that the free citizen has become unbearable for those who believe that all virtue must be directed, deducted, or sanctioned by the State.

This is the logic of all soft totalitarianism: first the State is sanctified, then the individual is criminalized.

They want us to believe that the money is not ours. That helping without permission is treason. That deciding for oneself is an act of arrogance.

But what is truly subversive today is not evading taxes or rejecting benefits. What is subversive is to think that the citizen can do good without asking the government for permission.

If that bothers the redeemer bureaucrats, the planners who have never caused a peso (2.2 pounds) or worked a day on the street, then let them be the ones to leave.

Because Mexico doesn't need more apostles of the fiscal Leviathan. Mexico needs free citizens.