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Aella
@Aella_Girl
"If you don't like it, move to a different country; you implicitly consent by staying here" is an argument I hear a lot from people when I complain about taxes, but is mysteriously absent when I complain about things like the drug war or bad policing
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Nick Albright 🇺🇲🇺🇦
@albrnick
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@Aella_Girl
Sure! Taxes are something we've agreed upon as a society, and have created laws for. Bad policing is not that, that's an error in our system. And the drug war was something we created laws for, and now that's changing as society's opinion changes.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@albrnick
Lots of people supported the drug war - it was something we agreed upon as a society, and created laws for. If, at the time, I had said "the drug war is bad", would you have been like "If you don't like it, leave?" I wanna change society's opinions about taxes, just like drugs.
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Nick Albright 🇺🇲🇺🇦
@albrnick
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@Aella_Girl
Absolutely! Discussion is great! The whole "I'm forced to" feels a bit extreme. A government raising revenues through income taxes is fairly common. This doesn't feel like some sort of radical law.
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Nick Albright 🇺🇲🇺🇦
@albrnick
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@Aella_Girl
But saying "I'm forced to drive the speed limit", "I'm forced to show ID to get in a plane", for every law feels a bit over the top. (And maybe a bit teen angsty) It detects from the actual discussion, IMHO.
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