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Re:Tax preparation industry alarmed over plan for IRS free t... by HideousKojima on Friday March 31, 2023 @09:24AM (#35386792)
Why do people always used a collapsed socialist state as their "gotcha" against libertarian type arguments?

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

Re:Tax preparation industry alarmed over plan for IRS free t... by forgetfreeman on Friday March 31, 2023 @10:09AM (#35387395)
because all of the libertarian ideals apply in any collapsed state (no governmental controls, unfettered free market, etc). What that state started as before it collapsed isn't relevant.
Re:Tax preparation industry alarmed over plan for IRS free t... by HideousKojima on Friday March 31, 2023 @10:08PM (#35396324)
Somalia doesn't lack a state though, it has competing warlords fighting for control of the remains of the socialist state.
Re:Tax preparation industry alarmed over plan for IRS free t... by Apocryphon on Sunday April 02, 2023 @03:10PM (#35414023)
And you presume in the absence of a state, no force will attempt to fill the power vacuum?