Skitzyfrenic
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I remember reading that the Jews who were enslaved by the Egyptians were known to be slaves, not by being chattel, but because they paid taxes at a rate of 20% and freemen did not pay such high taxes.
I remember reading that the Jews who were enslaved by the Egyptians were known to be slaves, not by being chattel, but because they paid taxes at a rate of 20% and freemen did not pay such high taxes.
Taxation is literally theft.Basically, that's where I disagree with ancaps, (the whole NO taxation thing,) but I'll still side with them because they'll push things in the right direction.
The right direction being far less taxation.
We need some. But not even CLOSE to where it's at now. And the fact that my income is taxed, and then I'm taxed AGAIN when I actually purchase things, it's insane. The amount that I am taxed it outrageous. It could pay my rent and car payment, and I'm not rich or well off, I live paycheck to paycheck.
On top of that, not only do I think most of it is wasted via corruption, I also feel that most of it goes to things I outright disagree with.
So, I will side with the people who claim taxation is theft and want to eliminate it, because maybe they can help push it in the other direction.
Anyways, it sounds silly to normies, but when you think about it, the "taxation is theft," line is actually justified. Sure, most of us agree to a certain level of taxation, but it's easy to forget that you're paying those taxes at gunpoint. Both metaphorically and also quite literally, because if you don't pay them, men with guns WILL come, and they will lock you in a cage.
This is exactly how to look at it, IMO. It's always evil. It might be a necessary evil, but it's still evil.Taxation is literally theft.
Someone is literally using the threat of being imprisoned in a rape camp to steal your money.
Some level taxation is a necessary evil. But being NECESSARY does not mean it is NOT theft.
I should also note that I was specifically toning things down and not even going into the morality of it....This is exactly how to look at it, IMO. It's always evil. It might be a necessary evil, but it's still evil.
True,small Republics could work like that.But - notching bigger then,let say,Estonia.It is possible to imagine a society in which taxation was not robbery or extortion. Maybe some kind of localized fully democracy where everyone had a direct say on how the money would be used.
But we do not live in such a world.
Fuck you and fuck your racist implication six ways to Sunday.
I would but the government took away my gun rights when I was hospitalized against my will, the same government that argues I'm not mentally ill enough for disability. Doesn't mean I can't easily get access to a gun in an emergency situation though
Except no one has at all made any valid arguments that the TikTok bill will make everything banable.
I would but the government took away my gun rights when I was hospitalized against my will, the same government that argues I'm not mentally ill enough for disability. Doesn't mean I can't easily get access to a gun in an emergency situation though
Ooph, I'm sorry about this.I would but the government took away my gun rights when I was hospitalized against my will, the same government that argues I'm not mentally ill enough for disability. Doesn't mean I can't easily get access to a gun in an emergency situation though
Um, "hospitalized against my will" generally means that you're too out of it to legally make decicisions for your self.Ooph, I'm sorry about this.
Sure, but there are short term reasons for that, which don't have long term implications. For example, I got a really bad fever once, so much that I though that my attempted sleeping position affected who in the SEC got what bowl game. Now at that particular point, if I had called 911 (and I likely should have), I could have been forcibly hospitalized for being insane. But that wasn't some long term thing, it was literally just the fever fucking with me, and it's never happened before or since. I shouldn't lose gun rights for that.Um, "hospitalized against my will" generally means that you're too out of it to legally make decicisions for your self.
I have chronic pancreatitis and a prescription for a narcotic painkiller that's stronger than heroin: hydrocodone.Sure, but there are short term reasons for that, which don't have long term implications. For example, I got a really bad fever once, so much that I though that my attempted sleeping position affected who got what bowl game. Now at that particular point, if I had called 911 (and I likely should have), I could have been forcibly hospitalized for being insane. But that wasn't some long term thing, it was literally just the fever fucking with me, and it's never happened before or since. I shouldn't lose gun rights for that.
That's nice. But I wasn't talking about your situation. You've made a decision, and it's probably the right one for you. But having that decision made for you, and made badly for you, might be the situation Indyfront is in, and that would suck.I have chronic pancreatitis and a prescription for a narcotic painkiller that's stronger than heroin: hydrocodone.
The last time I went to the ER I asked for something to relieve andominal pain - which wasn't what I was there for btw. I was given 0.50mg of hydromorphone when tylenol would have been enough.
Hydromorphone is about eight times stronger than morphine and I, from experience, knew and said that "I ain't going anywhere for at least 8 hours".