LaVar Hosting Jeopardy July 26-30 Stan Account 👁

So we spend about 15% of the federal budget on violence and the threat of violence as a means of coercing other people's behavior.

And most of the remainder is spent on bribery for votes or 'incentives' for behavior that citizens wouldn't otherwise voluntarily do.

maybe. You call it a bribery, I call it a concession to the people wrung, after long struggle, from the powerful.

I'm still a progressive at heart: even if all governments are bad, some governments are better, and better is better.