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cgod  ·  4799 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Elizabeth Warren Quote about the Social Contract Implied in Success
National sales tax only would be an incredibly regressive tax.

I'm not sure when this volunteer government you speak of existed.

The tax is theft, libertarian, we should only give what we want to give argument would be threatening to any kind of healthy society if it was any way sustainable, but it's not. As old folks starved to death, disease spread from the break down of public health provisions, poor kids took to the streets committing crimes instead of being in school learning skills to become productive adults, the sky and land became mires of filth, and food became unreliably safe to consume, I feel assured that the decent people of the nation would rise up and kill the anti-social bastards that imposed such a living hell.

I think you casually discount all the really fantastic services which the government provides, because you have an over inflated sense of your own value (you don't realize how much of who and what you are is because you have lived in a basically secure and healthy environment). I could be wrong, I don't know you, maybe you are living in Somalia and living it up in libertarian heaven, where you have carved out every good bit of your life by the sweat of your brow.





artifex  ·  4798 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Oh god, the Somalian straw man.

I'm not sure why anti-Libertarians think Libertarians are all rugged individualists. Libertarians do indeed value community, but once again, community is not analogous to the state.