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Financial taxation of all forms and levels. Expensive government regulations. Participating in a market with a government tolerated monopoly. Ownership of la
by VLM 11y ago
Financial taxation of all forms and levels. Expensive government regulations. Participating in a market with a government tolerated monopoly. Ownership of land under zoning board control (essentially all land). Licensing fees on titled registered personal property (cars, boats, homes). Benefiting from government services (national defense, police, maybe some day medical care, all the way down to welfare) without having first paid your share in taxes. Any service ever provided to disabled or handicapped people, unless they were really rich and paid a lot of taxes before the accident. Public education either in schools or libraries. The "public" airwaves. Theft, all of it.
By definition the only people playing the game, are those willing to hold their nose and wade into the cesspool anyway. Nobody currently in the cesspool can seriously convince anyone that they really thought they were wading into a Randian utopian swimming pool, they knew what they were getting into. Given that intentional acceptance of the situation they're voluntarily a part of, a bag of crackers isn't much of an additional theft. Deal with it.
What is likely to happen, is when I was a kid cigarette cartons were like $10 and out on shelves for anyone to steal, but why would anyone steal a $10 carton of cigs? Now they're like $80 per carton and locked up in closets until after payment is made. So there will be changes in supermarket operations. Oh well, disruption happens.