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0 pointsbcrosby951y ago0 comments

The liberty in that example being raising enough taxes to properly fund our government so people can just go about their lives.

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llm_trw1y ago· 2 in thread

You can no more riase taxes to properly fund government than you can fill a bucket with no bottom.

One only need to look at the Harris campaign to see that the political class in the us is fundamentally innumerate as well as incapable of making a cost benefit analysis.

ethbr11y ago

One only needs look at any administration after 1980.

https://www.thebalancemoney.com/us-deficit-by-year-3306306#t...

The only presidential administration that produced a non-deficit budget was Bill Clinton's second term (~97-00).

Probably because Ross Perot mostly self-funded a third party campaign centered around the national debt and had received 8% of the vote (and 19% in the previous election).

microtonal1y ago

You are missing the point. Benjamin Franklin's quote is about taxation (well at least some people argue):

https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famou...

People quote it in the wrong context.

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