09-03-2019, 08:10 AM
(08-16-2019, 09:21 AM)David Horn Wrote:(08-16-2019, 12:18 AM)march Wrote: Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you work for the Army; then it's National Defense. Spying on your neighbors is invasion of privacy, unless you work for the FBI; then it's National Security. Running a whorehouse makes you a pimp and poisoning people makes you a murderer, unless you work for the CIA; then it's counter-intelligence.
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Please feel free to emigrate to a nation more aligned with your fantasies. This one will never be it.
Unless the government owns the productive assets and can rely upon profits (North Korea) or is selling a resource that it can extract cheaply (Saudi Arabia) it will collect taxes. Neither is a good match for many Americans.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.