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Taxes are bad. Governments absorb wealth. They don't create wealth. No government has ever created wealth.
by rriepe 5y ago
Taxes are bad. Governments absorb wealth. They don't create wealth. No government has ever created wealth.
- spoonjim 5y agoLOL. I wonder what kind of information diet one would have to construct, and how long one would need to adhere to it, to get oneself to a place where they sincerely believe this.
- rriepe 5y agoIt's usually just tax forms when you turn 18
- tomtheelder 5y agoAnd even if you somehow DID believe that governments never create wealth, you'd need to have also convinced yourself that they can do no good aside from wealth creation. Or possibly that there IS no good aside from wealth creation. Regardless of what it is, it is a viewpoint totally divorced from reality.
- rriepe 5y agoI'm right here. I'm a human. You can e-mail me. I'm a person!
- SiempreViernes 5y agoNo offence but "you can e-mail me" is not the most persuasive argument for possessing personhood I've heard. Anyway, I don't think people doubt your humanity, just your sincerity.
- rriepe 5y agoYou're a bigot.
- yardstick 5y agoDidn’t DARPA essentially create the Internet? Lot of wealth has been created here thanks to them.
- jjeaff 5y agoGovernments don't save, they spend everything they earn and then some. Where exactly do you think all the tax money is going?
- rriepe 5y agoGovernments save all the time in various ways but that's not what I'm talking about when I say "absorb": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Norway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor... What they never do is "earn." You wouldn't use that verb for money I took under threat of force or imprisonment, right? So why would you use it here? Try "steal," "rob," or, if you're feeling particularly generous, "take." As for where it's going: Into a hole in the ground? My argument is that governments are inherently inefficient, not that governments shouldn't exist. Government is emergent. It has to exist. If you see someone having the "Should government exist?" debate they're probably an anarchist in high school. Or an HNer, I guess. It's not a serious intellectual discussion topic. Drop 10 people off on a deserted island and they'll have a government 30 minutes later. There's no "no government."
- dang 5y agoPlease don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents. They're repetitive and usually turn nasty. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=generic%20ideolog%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27461853 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27461853.
- rriepe 5y agoCan you please ban me? I don't want to be part of this community any more. I appreciate you (you! specifically) holding this place together but it's become one of the most toxic places on the internet for anti-Christian, anti-American and anti-conservative sentiment.