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Re:The Bitcoin Whales: 1,000 People Who Own 40 Percent of th... by frgtpsswrdlame on Friday December 08, 2017 @04:17PM (#15882117)
No, I don't believe so. Take taxes, taxes are coercive because if you refuse to follow tax law then the government enacts violence against you right?

Now take property, property is coercive because if you refuse to follow property law then the government enacts violence against you.

It's one to one.

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Re:The Bitcoin Whales: 1,000 People Who Own 40 Percent of th... by ric2b on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @12:59PM (#15915978)
Difference being that the first is someone taking your property and the second is you taking property from someone else.
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