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A comment on Tax-Free Bitcoin-To-Ether Trading in US to End Under GOP Plan. Parent comment

Re:Tax-Free Bitcoin-To-Ether Trading in US to End Under GOP ... by jMyles on Thursday December 21, 2017 @07:01PM (#15984050)
That is an excuse, not a line of reasoning. The fact that taxes are used for some good things is a really shitty excuse for the misery and slavery that empire casts upon the world.

Furthermore, I have every confidence in people to care for each other as brothers and sisters in the absence of the state. The internet will not tolerate the bombs and the fake money, but it will facilitate health care and, as you say, "much more."

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Re:Tax-Free Bitcoin-To-Ether Trading in US to End Under GOP ... by BeetleB on Thursday December 21, 2017 @08:43PM (#15984635)
>That is an excuse, not a line of reasoning.

I believe he was pointing the same about your comment, just in reverse.

>The fact that taxes are used for some good things is a really shitty excuse for the misery and slavery that empire casts upon the world.

The fact that taxes are used for some evil things is a shitty excuse for not letting it be used for the good things.

>Furthermore, I have every confidence in people to care for each other as brothers and sisters in the absence of the state.

You are as entitled to that opinion as those who have little confidence in it.

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