Could we end taxes, by having countries mine bitcoin. It seems to work out for El Salvador?
Okay I don't know if they stopped taxing, but is this possible ?
31 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 15 Sep 2023
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21 sats \ 10 replies \ @TomK 15 Sep 2023
Show me products or services that wouldn't be provided better by quality and quantity by the free market. Taxes are needed for growing the parasitic bureaucracy that literally enslaves the people. We need to turn the argument on his feet again.
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25 sats \ 9 replies \ @Undisciplined 15 Sep 2023
Hard agree. I was disappointed by the direction this post took. Why do people privilege the interests of the state so often? Let the state worry about how to steal from us and help us figure out how to not be stolen from.
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21 sats \ 8 replies \ @TomK 15 Sep 2023
I think it's the result of an education and media-based propaganda process that makes people think there can't be an alternative to the almighty commie state. Our society is growing an army of Peter Pans
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0 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined 15 Sep 2023
I've thought for a while now that most people literally have Stockholm Syndrome towards the state. That's why there's so much more concern about the state's finances than their own. You're right that it's the result of persistent propaganda that starts early in childhood. Cult programming is hard to break.
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21 sats \ 6 replies \ @TomK 15 Sep 2023
Yep. I know people that personally feel responsible for healthy gov households and are begging for higher taxes. Germans and Spaniards. And it's always the same: I finish with my line ''taxes are theft'' just to bring in the same phrase: ''And who will be building the streeeeeets??''
But to me it's amusement
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21 sats \ 5 replies \ @9717fc0878 OP 15 Sep 2023 freebie
my point was that if the state did not take money but only could get money by providing a bond like the volcano bonds in El Salvador, we mighty be able to get out of a situation based on taxes and governments.
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 15 Sep 2023
That's fair. My point is that once they stop stealing people's money I couldn't care less how they try to generate revenue.
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21 sats \ 3 replies \ @9717fc0878 OP 15 Sep 2023
I was just trying to see a way to make them stop the theft.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @satoshi_in_the_classroom 15 Sep 2023
No. https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1702426920602714289?t=SCMnyXGUzJTRe7gGIkvBSA&s=19
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @9717fc0878 OP 15 Sep 2023
Canada seems to be a lost cause, but maybe the people will do something?
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