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by EpicEng 4441 days ago
And you see no coercion in this ill-conceived scheme? "This tax is 'voluntary', but if you don't pay it someone will certainly come along and take your property from you." What world do you live in exactly?
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That kind of concept would work with enough mobility to just leave states you disapprove of. I like to think a huge amount of political inertia in the last 30 years has been due to the lack of any new frontiers to settle. And it is hard to voluntarily withdraw from a state if that also means you have to somehow get accepted into another one, since almost every square inch of habitable land on Earth is state controlled, even Antarctica.