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Re:Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America? by nobody9999 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @01:34AM (#25579200)
>Nobody likes taxes, and Norquist just makes it more painful. Ideologues are jerks.

Not nobody. I'm one of the ones who agrees with (purportedly) Oliver Wendell Holmes[0].

[0] "I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization." Source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/13/taxes-civilize/

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Re:Why Is There a Bucatini Shortage in America? by pstuart on Thursday December 31, 2020 @02:44PM (#25596323)
I'm ok with paying taxes (for the reason cited) but I don't like paying them. And part of that is the inconvenience that Norquist has worked to ensure.
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