"Do I Really Have to Pay for Electricity?"

Why This Common Question Reveals Something Much Bigger

Someone asked me this week: "Do men and women really need to pay for electricity?"

It's a question I hear often. And I understand why people ask it. There's a growing awareness that something about the system doesn't add up. People are questioning everything — and that's healthy.

But here's the thing: this particular question is actually one of the harder ones to answer. And by chasing it first, many people miss the questions that are easy to answer — questions that matter far more.

Let me explain.

The Electricity Question Is Complicated

Let's be honest about what electricity involves:

• There's a production cost. Whether you believe the official story of how it's generated or not, something produces it.

• You can't produce it yourself for free.

• Someone, somewhere, expends resources to make it available.

So the real question becomes: Is it already paid for through some other mechanism — taxation, perhaps — that we're not being told about?

That's a valid question. But it's genuinely difficult to trace. The answer is buried in layers of corporate structure, government accounting, and financial mechanisms that take serious investigation to untangle.

We'll get there eventually. But it's not where we're focused right now.

Because there are much bigger questions that are surprisingly easy to answer.

The Questions Nobody Asks

While people chase the electricity question, almost nobody is asking:

Should you be paying tax just to exist?

Think about it. You're taxed when you earn. Taxed when you spend. Taxed when you save. Taxed when you own. Taxed when you give. Taxed when you die.

But why? And more importantly — by what authority?

Are you actually bound to pay these taxes?

Not "will they chase you if you don't" — that's a different question. The question is: what is the lawful basis of the obligation? Where is the contract you signed? Where is your consent?

Should you be subservient to authorities that simply declared themselves authorities?

Governments don't arrive with a signed agreement from you. They claim power. They write rules. They enforce those rules. But did you ever actually agree to any of it?

When you're taxed on your labour — on the energy you expend — isn't that a claim of ownership over you?

If someone else is entitled to the fruits of your effort, not by your agreement but by their demand — what is that, if not servitude?

And has this been systematically hidden from you?

Think about your education. From the earliest age, you were taught to comply. To accept that others have authority over you. To fear penalties. To believe that participation in the system is automatic and inevitable.

You were never taught to ask: by what right?

That's not an accident. The system depends on you never asking.

Let's Do the Maths

People are chasing questions about electricity bills while ignoring what's being taken from them across a lifetime.

Add it up:

• Income tax — taken before you even see your earnings

• National Insurance — taken alongside it

• VAT — 20% on almost everything you buy

• Council tax — for the privilege of living in your own home

• Road tax — for the privilege of using roads you already paid for

• Fuel duty — tax on the energy to get anywhere

• Stamp duty — tax on buying a home

• Capital gains tax — tax on any increase in value of what you own

• Corporation tax — if you try to build something

• Licensing fees — for permission to do what should require no permission

• Penalties — parking, speeding, late payments, non-compliance of every kind

• Inheritance tax — tax on assets that were already taxed when earned, taxed when spent, and taxed while owned

When you total it across a lifetime, the average person loses between 60% and 70% of their earned income to the state.

Read that again.

You work your entire life. You expend your energy, your time, your creativity, your labour. And when the system is finished extracting from you — including after you die — you kept less than a third of what you created.

What Do You Call That?

There's a word for a system where you work and someone else takes most of what you produce.

Throughout history, that word has been slavery.

The only difference now is the method. It's not chains. It's not whips. It's forms. It's "obligations." It's penalties. It's fear. It's conditioning so deep you never think to question it.

And here's the dark irony: you're left with just enough to survive. Just enough to keep working. Just enough to prevent revolution.

That's not an accident either.

The Irony of the Electricity Question

So when someone asks, "Do I really have to pay for electricity?" — I understand the impulse. You're waking up. You're questioning.

But step back and see the bigger picture:

You're asking whether a £100 monthly bill is legitimate...

...while 60-70% of your lifetime earnings are extracted through a system you never consented to, never signed a contract for, and were conditioned from childhood to accept without question.

The electricity question is complicated.

The taxation question is not.

Here's What Most People Miss

The system doesn't work the way you were taught.

When you were born, a legal record was created — your birth certificate. That record created a "person." That person is not you. It's a legal construct, identified by your name.

Every tax demand, every fine, every statutory obligation — none of them are addressed to you, the living man or woman. They're addressed to the person.

But here's the crucial part: for those demands to reach you, you have to be acting as the agent of that person.

And agency requires a contract.

No one ever signed that contract with you.

The entire system operates on presumption — the assumption that you are the person, that you agreed to represent it, that you consented to the obligations attached to it.

You didn't.

And when that presumption is properly challenged, it falls apart. Because they cannot produce what doesn't exist.

Why These Questions Are Easy to Answer

The electricity question requires tracing hidden payment mechanisms through complex corporate and government structures.

But the questions about taxation, authority, and obligation? These are answered by established law:

• Agency law tells us that acting for someone else requires a valid contract. No contract exists.

• Trust law tells us that beneficial interest in your life and labour requires a valid transfer. No transfer occurred.

• Equity tells us that fiduciary roles cannot be imposed without acceptance. You never accepted.

• Constitutional law — Magna Carta itself — tells us that no one can be deprived of rights or possessions except by lawful judgment. Presumption is not lawful judgment.

These aren't fringe theories. This is black-letter law — the same law used by the wealthy to protect their assets through trusts, the same law courts have applied for centuries.

The only difference is: nobody told you it applies to you too.

That's the conditioning. That's the education system doing its job. That's generations of compliance trained so deep that the questions are never asked.

Until now.

The Order of Operations

Here's my honest advice:

Don't start with electricity. Don't start with council tax or parking fines or TV licences.

Start with the foundation.

Understand how statutory obligations are claimed against you. Understand why that claim fails when properly examined. Establish your correct legal position — with standing, with documentation, with a lawful basis to respond.

Then, from that position, you can address any specific claim — including utilities — with clarity and confidence.

Chase the small questions first, and you'll be running forever. Answer the big question once, and everything else becomes manageable.

The Big Question

So let me leave you with this:

60-70% of your lifetime earnings. Taken without a contract. Enforced through penalties. Hidden behind conditioning so effective you were taught to call it "civic duty."

If you are taxed on your energy — the effort you expend just to live — and that tax is imposed without your consent, without a contract, without lawful authority...

What do you call that?

And if the answer makes you uncomfortable...

What are you going to do about it?

The Not a Person Course for Freedom Reclamation answers these questions — not with theory or ideology, but with established law properly applied. 78 modules. 12 chapters. AI tutor and expert built in. Everything you need to understand the mechanism and establish your lawful position.

The path from controlled to free is simpler than they want you to believe.

And once you see it, you cannot unsee it.