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lol "taxation is just like the mafia". 12 year olds and libertarians are so alike

• sirbutters 2y ago
  haha, well said.
• baq 2y ago
  If you trace how first governments formed… it’s literally true. When the mafia gets everyone in its ranks it becomes the defacto ruling body. In present times, you can look at cartels providing government services of better quality than the government itself in some parts of the world.
  • magicalist 2y ago
    > If you trace how first governments formed… it’s literally true. As far as we know the first governments predated written history, so I'm not sure how you'd ever be able to demonstrate this.
  • dennis_jeeves2 2y ago
    Modern 'democratic' govts are actually a sophisticated form of the what is typically considered the mafia. Killing their rivals has been replaced with 'defeating' their rivals in an election. So now they need to worry less if their rivals will kill them. Then they also they send you a nice itemized printed tax bill versus the the mafia which would send their henchmen to knock at your door for the protection money. All in all in the west humanity has progressed! /s