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[+] -10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)
  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    I'm pleased that you can conceptually see this "possibility", for lack of a better word. It speaks of creativity and imagination.

    That your conclusion seems locked-in on this possibility as the only solution, is needlessly below your abilities and shows mental rigidity or tunnel vision.

    Currency and Taxation CAN and HAVE been weaponized as you described, but so has a carrot. Just because a carrot CAN and HAS been used to stab through someone's eye and pierce their brain, killing them, doesn't mean that this is what carrots are for, or how public policy should treat carrots.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago

    Taxes are not theft. They are contributing to the group that shares resources like water and services like roads. These are not naturally forming, they are planned and maintained by people doing a job who need to be compensated.

    The problem with taxes is who is taxed. If only a few hundred families control a majority of the wealth, why are you paying taxes? They need to be taxed back down to the quality of life that we live.

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