kibiz0r comments on Me Living In the US

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

issuing currency
collecting taxes
suppressing evidence of child sex trafficking

One of these things is so outrageously unlike the others that it makes me kinda sus of whoever decided to put them all in the same list

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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

A charitable interpretation of "printing money out of thin air" is how they bail out corporations and landlords. Why even save if the game is so obviously rigged?

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[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

They're mad at #2 because #1 gives them all the money they need to do #3. So why do they need my money too?

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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago*

All USD is printed. Taxes are the only thing that gives USD its value.

I have a problem with the meme playing footsie with the ideas that taxes are theft and money-printing is fraud.

These are common neo-metallist arguments. And in techie spaces like the fediverse, libertarians like to sneak them into the conversation while going “How do you do, fellow progressives?” before they start pitching NFTs.

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