My understanding is that they did fund themselves before. Income tax was not enacted until 1913.
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Damn, that year really was a major turning point in the US huh
I get why people are full-on abolitionists now
Found this old note i think you’d like
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Ah hahaha, that's quite savage.
I have no dreams about an egalitarian utopia either.
I'd add to what you wrote with this:
Bitcoin can push a community that adopts it toward a more natural order where wealth redistribution occurs automatically via the best mechanism for such a thing, the free market.
It can improve savings, capital accumulation and productivity, ultimately benefiting everyone.
But Bitcoin can't fix inequality. Nothing can. Human beings cannot be made equal. Rothbard was right in saying that egalitarianism is a revolt against nature.
It can't fix man's tendency to coerce, steal and aggress. That's a political problem which bitcoiners cannot ignore, no matter where they live.
Having said that, entrenched concentration and inequality is not natural at all, which usually occurs in places where there's an unnatural intervention into the free market made by a coercive individual or entity, usually a government. Another political problem that Bitcoin can't fix.