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Re:GNU Taler 0.0.0 released by exstudent2 on Sunday June 05, 2016 @01:17PM (#11841954)
It's not so black and white. You can be against taxes but not want to opt out of civilization. If the government wasn't stealing around 40% of my income, I could spend that money on initiatives that benefit people other than just myself. Money could even be pooled by neighbors to pay for things. The thing is it has to be up to the individual how they spend their money, not left to guys with guns forcing you to hand over your money (the government).
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Re:GNU Taler 0.0.0 released by evgen on Sunday June 05, 2016 @02:17PM (#11842272)
If the government wasn't stealing around 40% of my income, I could spend that money on initiatives that benefit people other than just myself.

If the government was not stealing around 40% of your money I would come and take 100% of it and leave you bleeding in the gutter.

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Re:GNU Taler 0.0.0 released by sgift on Sunday June 05, 2016 @02:23PM (#11842289)
I'd rather not try out again what happens when we give people the option to help those less fortunate than them or let them suffer without any safety net for those people. History tells me that this won't work very well.

And if you don't like that the government is stealing your money you can always go somewhere else (and resign your citizenship if your taxiation is bound by that) where they steal less money. You can even go somewhere where the government doesn't steal any of your money (usually only in countries where there's no government).

At the end of the day democracy demands that we have to live with decisions that we personally do not like but the majority of people voted for. Everyone knows that this is not a great system, but we haven't found a better one yet. Not for lack of trying though.

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Re:GNU Taler 0.0.0 released by jamesdwilson on Monday June 06, 2016 @10:06PM (#11851926)
> And if you don't like that the government is stealing your money you can always go somewhere else

if you can afford it.

> At the end of the day democracy demands that we have to live with decisions that we personally do not like but the majority of people voted for.

All major USA candidates are connected to Soros.

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