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Politics is "the Art of the Possible", my friend, and sometimes "the perfect" can be the enemy of "the good".

An hour's labour stolen through tariffs empowers the State far less than an hour's labour stolen through "income tax".
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SimplifiedPrivacy.com 9mo ago

But dude... they are keeping on the income tax

40 to 50% tariff on china... for how much tax reduction?

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Low Information Voter 9mo ago

Now you're making it, not a matter of principle, but a question of numbers and efficiency.

I don't disagree with you there.

But let's not accuse people of "not being cypherpunks" for favouring a less-intrusive tax over more-intrusive ones, tactically or otherwise. Purity spirals and Takfir should be problems for our many enemies, not us.

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SimplifiedPrivacy.com 9mo ago

I disagree on principle with a lone individual having complete power over global economies and stock markets. To make the indexes of thousands of companies move to his every tweet

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Low Information Voter 9mo ago

We agree there, too.

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LysanderSpoonerWasRight 9mo ago

Promoting more taxes....this is hilarious - gotta gotta be a time-delayed April Fool's joke... that, or the kool-aid has been duly ingested.