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I feel like I'm in crazytown when I express distress about taxation - literally people forcibly taking away your property - and ppl act like I'm the crazy one. Sure, you could argue that this forcible theft is worth it, and I'll respect that, but it's still not crazy to be upset.

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How do you know? We didn't have income tax until what... 1913? and America was still creating infrastructure just fine. It's very possible, likely even, that we'd be even more prosperous and happy if we hadn't been taxing this hard since then.

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DanInTheDumps

@CountDownTheClo

Apr 24, 2021

However government has failed to uphold their end of the contract. Your representatives don't represent you, they represent special interests. Under covid, they forced small businesses to close without compensation while giant corporations run unimpeded.

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So instead let’s... lower taxes and weaken government to own the corporations?

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Imo, we should *focus* government. Government is doing a lot of things it doesn't need to be; we should remove it from most places, and then strengthen laws to assist in preventing corporate influence.

6:37 PM · Apr 24, 2021

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What are the big areas of excess and focus? It seems like you’ve said infrastructure as excess and corporate regulation as focus, but what else? Are there areas of spending you see as worthwhile and justified?