Comment on Fuck the IRS

GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Here is a longer excerpt from the opinion by Holmes:1

  It is true, as indicated in the last cited case, that every exaction of money for an act is a discouragement to the extent of the payment required, but that which in its immediacy is a discouragement may be part of an encouragement when seen in its organic connection with the whole. Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, including the chance to insure.

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  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No representation, no taxation. I don’t see no representation, do you?

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    • SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      insurance companies pulling out of residential markets in disaster zones tells you all you need to know. not even to mention the healthcare, legal, regime change, academic, media “industries” (criminal enterprises) we are all dependent upon for our daily lives (in modern lifestyle fashion), with no hope in sight for general public welfare driven reforms ever being applied to any such structures which uphold and propagate the duplicity and dominion of “capitalism” (coordinated synchronous sociopathic liquidation of universal good-faith towards maximum capture of select-minority-control over long term future prospects of any and all valuable forms)

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• MTZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I enjoyed Civ 5 but I never played the other ones except the OG. I trust that 2 - 4 and any ones they have released since 5 are decent as well.

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  • Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ve played 4,5,6 and 7, and I’ve enjoyed all of those.

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• MoffKalast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Feels like my taxes used to give me a lot more civilization back in the day.

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