You've defined being forced to pay taxes as violence. This re-definition has zero basis in American history, or even western civilization.
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Replying to @AdamRackis @wycats
No basis in American history? Like nearly all of the Framers opposing income tax and it not existing for the 1st 100yrs of American history?
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Replying to @csuwildcat @AdamRackis
What do you think would be different today if we switched to a national property tax instead of an income tax? I'd be in favor.
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Ugh no. Then landlords can gouge renters even more.
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He subsequently said you could put more of onus on commercial property owners. Could also make the national property tax rates progressive
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Doesn't work that way. Landlords don't have to reveal their tax burdens so they can mark up as much as they want.
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Tax would be based on value of property which is public knowledge.
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Sure, but that doesn't stop a landlord from charging more than their tax burden. Trying to take tools out of their toy box.
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The matter-of-fact manner in which folks here are throwing around things they'd dictate to others, as if they're cattle to prod, is striking
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Replying to @csuwildcat @probablyup and
The belief that assembling a bigger mob to put scribbles into magic boxes allows one to dictate people's lives, is, quite frankly, maniacal.pic.twitter.com/zfCOAdbx5P
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So you're an anarchist not a libertarian? Would you have been an antifederalist?
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I'm a minarchist, but if I had to pick, I would have favored the positions of Jefferson and Monroe, over that of the Federalists'
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