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Re:GNU Taler 0.0.0 released by aninhumer on Monday June 06, 2016 @12:41AM (#11844708)
> it seems that the HN crowd is down-voting everyone that slightly disagrees with the Big Government and is not into Populist Governments

HN downvotes libertarians who take the rhetorical position that "tax is theft" (or otherwise inherently immoral), because it's intellectually shallow.

There are many reasonable arguments to be made for reduced taxation, and you have presented many of them above. "Tax is theft" is not one of them.

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Re:GNU Taler 0.0.0 released by rglullis on Monday June 06, 2016 @11:18AM (#11847384)
> because it's intellectually shallow.

Still, the drive-by downvote is not helpful. It just helps to polarize and removes any chance of discussion. This becomes a gold mine to the populists.

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