Does the government build mega cities or do people build them? We’ve had roads without income tax. We don’t need government at all
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A lot of a roads were built by prisoners using truancy laws.
I’m not familiar. Can you elaborate?
Post civil war when the country was expanding and roads were being built the nation had strong truancy laws. Basically loitering was a 6 month prison sentence as soon as someone was released they would immediately be arrested again.
Prison slave labour is the backbone of USA's entire economy.
They used to heavily rely upon prison slave labour to build roads, but these days they use them to staff McDonald's and manufacture stuff in factories
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>We don’t need government at all
...until there's a global pandemic and you need to actually stop it.
From what I seen most government policies actually made it worse.
People were being kept inside without access to sunlight.
People were being isolated when healthy or left in nursing homes to die alone with stupid loop holes that allowed infected people to create super spreading events.
A few countries handled it well, not here though.
Sweden handled it the best
Workers build everything, government is just the system used to organise people.
Anarchism is a form of government.
But I know you're using government to refer specifically to the state. Just wanted to clarify that.
I'm 100% against income tax and rates.
(Rates are the tax that people usually justify because of muh roads)
These days income tax literally provides nothing, that money gets destroyed to control inflation.
China doesn't even have rates, funnily enough.
They tax their citizens a lot less than the West.
But it's a command economy where the state directs the economy.
It was state policy that created the environment in China for the workers to build all of this.
I do have hope for a better world where people and communities are sovereign and the state doesn't exist. But it's just a utopian dream at the end of the day.
Something to work towards that we'll probably never achieve.