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>I've never been clear why people think "guns" will protect them from a government that has massive technological and economic resources at their disposal. Tho
by noarchy 13y ago
>I've never been clear why people think "guns" will protect them from a government that has massive technological and economic resources at their disposal.
Those economic resource, of course, were taken from the population. Cutting off the oxygen in this area, so to speak, might be far more effective than guns. Guns, as it happens, are what implicitly lay behind the government's ability to take your money.
- drhayes9 13y agoDo you mean, "Let's not pay taxes" as a revolutionary tactic? Would that really work in the world of complex financial instruments, deficit spending, international aid, etc? The implicit violence argument behind taxes never held a lot of water with me. I pay taxes because I like interstates, Pell grants, enforcement of certain federal regulations (environmental, labor, etc), among other things.
- gohrt 13y agoDo those other things include Farm Bill, foreign wars, Gitmo, interntional aid to all the various regimes that receive it...?
- drhayes9 13y agoIf the Farm Bill supported welfare, then yes. The others... not so much. But those things aren't direct effects of taxes, they're the direct result of legislative and executive action that can be, in part, enabled by taxes. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.