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Re:In the Beginning, There Were Taxes by HideousKojima on Friday April 16, 2021 @08:29PM (#26840548)
Somalia has taxes in the form of warlords taking whatever they want. And Somalia is always trotted out as an example of Anarchy (or more uncharitably as an example of Libertarianism) by people ignorant of its history, often willfully so. Somalia is just another failed Socialist state:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_Revolutionary_Sociali...

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Re:In the Beginning, There Were Taxes by AstralStorm on Saturday April 17, 2021 @10:11AM (#26844391)
By failed you mean the government was couped, right? And it being called socialist is a bit of a funny thing, with encouraging private investment and high degree of authoritarianism, even totalitarianism.

This is not the same thing at all.

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Re:In the Beginning, There Were Taxes by HideousKojima on Saturday April 17, 2021 @04:37PM (#26847244)
>And it being called socialist is a bit of a funny thing, with encouraging private investment and high degree of authoritarianism, even totalitarianism.

Yes, like every other failed Socialist and Communist state, they made promises of economic inequality and instead becane authoritarian genocidal maniacs.

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