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Everybody acting like this general level of taxation is normal, inevitable or good makes me feel like I'm living in crazytown. It's pretty similar to everybody just sending their kids off to school and being like yep, this is going to be good for them

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What total fraction of income do you think a normal/good tax system would charge it's citizens Honestly, aside from some extraordinarily glaring issues, I think we're roughly in the right space

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I think generally most of what the government does should be privatized. I don't think it should be involved at all in healthcare, social security, or welfare. I think taxes should be the minimum possible to sustain a tiny government that handles mostly just law and military.

6:24 PM · Mar 13, 2021

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Don’t know if you’re on

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, but folks with similar beliefs exist! And they love having contradictory discussions.

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I am on clubhouse! On a side note, do you have any idea how to get a link to a profile? I'm on ipad and can't figure it out.

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Surprising, I pegged you as a pragmatic utilitarian.

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Honest question (I don't have strong opinions on the subject) why do you find these claim so evident (like living in crazytown) ? I'm especially intrigued concerning social security/Healthcare. I thought most people preferred to have free/cheap healthcare and resented the US way

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That is pretty surprising. Would imagine you more as a utilitarian with less tendencies that end up causing more harm than good as proven by the rest of thr world

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I used to be an AnCap but I lost my fire for it at some point. I think, given that I've enjoyed many unusual advantages and, in general, have a low consumption lifestyle my level of confidence in my opinions about the true best governmental design is real low

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Also, if you personally are having tax frustrations I sent a DM with some speculation for savings

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How would privatized social security work? Healthcare is well known as a privatized system. Welfare I’ve never seen in the private sector, but it’s imaginable. Social security though? I have trouble imagining what that would look like.