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so....without taxes it would be impossible to have a stable economy or happy populations? I don't follow.


Don't change the argument. I never inferred, let alone stated "it is impossible to have a stable economy or happy populations without government". I am saying that empirically you can see that governments in first world countries generally aren't screwing things up so much you can say taxes are completely wasted.

You can also feel free to infer that I don't think the free market would do a better job, but that wasn't ever my argument.


they ARE screwing things up. bad government is the number one killer of the 20th and 21st centuries. it's not even a contest.




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