Re:Soon, Cars in Denmark Will Only Be Taxed at 100% (2017)
by ceejayoz on Thursday January 18, 2018 @05:26PM
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Economic freedom (which I'm presuming means "lower taxes"?) isn't much use to you if you're executed for possessing drugs, or indefinitely detained without charge, need a permit to assemble, can't criticize the government, etc.
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Re:Soon, Cars in Denmark Will Only Be Taxed at 100% (2017)
by devnonymous on Thursday January 18, 2018 @05:48PM
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> if you're executed for possessing drugs, or indefinitely detained without charge, need a permit to assemble, can't criticize the government, etc.
Erm, all those things(+) can, and do, happen in 'free' countries. They're just not officially sanctioned and are reported differently. If you were to look at this objectively (without depending on just the official figures) I'd say per capita, human rights abuse / exploitation is worse in the US than Singapore.
(+) and worse, eg: get executed for being the wrong color at the wrong time and place
Re:Soon, Cars in Denmark Will Only Be Taxed at 100% (2017)
by ceejayoz on Thursday January 18, 2018 @08:42PM
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OK... but I never claimed the US to be a "libertarian paradise", either. Neither the US nor Singapore could be, by any stretch of imagination, accurately deemed "libertarian paradises".