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Given the couple hundred million people who are compelled to pay taxes every year, if they truly faced a "comply or die" ultimatum you would expect over the dec
by abalone 10y ago
Given the couple hundred million people who are compelled to pay taxes every year, if they truly faced a "comply or die" ultimatum you would expect over the decades to see thousands (at a minimum) of killings.
Eric Garner and quite a few others are terrible examples of police brutality that minorities face in the enforcement of what should normally be non-lethal actions under any circumstances, even total non-compliance. Lethality here is a method of racial and/or class suppression, not so much enforcement of specific laws (e.g. jaywalking, loitering, cigarette tax compliance).