Liberal democracy is bad because of a chain of implications: Politics need teams Coalitions need gibs To give gibs you need to take them from someone To take from someone you need to morally elevate the receiver and denigrate the ones getting robbed (continued)https://twitter.com/pompilivs/status/1428265323782881280 …
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All of those states run taxation + "service" regimes that extract from the middle class in their non core areas, and actually make them less productive by forbidding broad swathes of economic activity (eg manufacturing or resource extraction).
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They extract from non-connected middle and give to a connected middle (MTA is a great example). They forbid manufacturing and resource extraction because that's part of their religion - the people who do those jobs are villainized as described in the OP.
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Taxes as understood by the majority (income, sales, property) may not get the T+B v. M dynamic across due to their nominally progressive nature. Other examples which may illustrate this: 1. the traffic tax (automated detection of speeding and red light violations)
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Denizens of wealthy neighborhoods are wont to use livery services, or worse try spiteful lawfare to flood entire precincts in paperwork. Around Da Projex: getting blood from a stone. Not worth putting up radar installations and cameras.
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