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NSA is part of military, not a part of police force. Socialism or capitalism - this is irrelevant. As long as country has aggressive foreign "interests", organi

• adventured 12y ago
  It's relevant because a Capitalist nation properly has a very small, very limited government. Under Capitalism, taxes - to the extent they exist at all - are supposed to be extremely limited. See: US in 1910. You can't fund the military industrial complex with anything other than a modern welfare state, backed by something like the Fed. It would be impossible under Capitalism. That switch-over happened with WW2 in the US, with the massive enlargement under FDR of the federal government.
  • gtirloni 12y ago
    So the US is what? Communist? Capitalism, socialism, communist... none of that matters when national interests (of the elite) are at play.
    • adventured 12y ago
      The US is a very large, highly regulated, highly taxed welfare state, in which the total government system spends roughly 40% of the economy (that's about as far from the structure of spending that a Capitalist government would have as you can get). It hasn't been a Capitalist nation in a very long time. 30 or 40 years ago, it might have been a mixed economy. Regulations and the breadth of taxes have grown substantially since the early 1970s.
      • exo762 12y ago
        “That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.” :)