How dare people try to get ahead in ways I find repellent. They clearly must be coerced into doing it, so let's coerce them into not doing it. It attracts trashy people and tweakers! They should abuse prescription drugs…
> we must make them be good Lash the sinners into virtue, eh? Good luck with the whole killing satan with his own pitchfork thing. All this does is turn those who try into demons; if you can hurt class enemies for being…
This is not a coincidence, given fascism was a mutant heresy of syndicalism (which itself is one of the many marxist flavors). Look into D'annuzio and the various other ideological influences on Mussolini and it's not…
There has never been a society wherein the most productive do not bear the majority of the costs. This is simply due to necessity; nothing else is possible. At the least they also have the most say in how society is…
As always, nobody asks what we the people could do if we were just taxed at the same rate as these hated class enemies. We might spend it on things we actually want, which of course is to be prevented at all costs.
Government is "sticky". War taxes stick around long after the end of the war, and city bureaucracies stick around long after a city declines. Nobody wants to accept that maybe a town of 5-20k people don't need 20-100…
There are always ways around the law for those creative enough. All it takes is one unregulated launch to put up a 'cold' ICBM in orbit, which would be effective insurance against any and all regulatory action. It's a…
How dare people try to get ahead in ways I find repellent. They clearly must be coerced into doing it, so let's coerce them into not doing it. It attracts trashy people and tweakers! They should abuse prescription drugs…
> we must make them be good Lash the sinners into virtue, eh? Good luck with the whole killing satan with his own pitchfork thing. All this does is turn those who try into demons; if you can hurt class enemies for being…
This is not a coincidence, given fascism was a mutant heresy of syndicalism (which itself is one of the many marxist flavors). Look into D'annuzio and the various other ideological influences on Mussolini and it's not…
There has never been a society wherein the most productive do not bear the majority of the costs. This is simply due to necessity; nothing else is possible. At the least they also have the most say in how society is…
As always, nobody asks what we the people could do if we were just taxed at the same rate as these hated class enemies. We might spend it on things we actually want, which of course is to be prevented at all costs.
Government is "sticky". War taxes stick around long after the end of the war, and city bureaucracies stick around long after a city declines. Nobody wants to accept that maybe a town of 5-20k people don't need 20-100…
There are always ways around the law for those creative enough. All it takes is one unregulated launch to put up a 'cold' ICBM in orbit, which would be effective insurance against any and all regulatory action. It's a…