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Someone at my college oversaw this on campus. The memes are coming to life!!! (media.patriots.win)
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– Animalocity 1 point ago +1 / -0

"If we abolish slavery, how will we pick the cotton?" Fast forward today where we have the current digital world.

Taxation is a moral issue. The consequences should never be a concern. The contrast above with the digital world we now live in is a great example of:

  1. We can't predict the future (they'd never have imagined what we have today)
  2. Freedom ALWAYS leads to better outcomes through innovation via the free market. If there is a demand for security, it will be filled. And it will be more cost effective.
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– completethrowaway 1 point ago +1 / -0

I'm pretty sure they had a way to pick cotton without slaves back then. It was just expensive.

The free market exists only within a society that enforces that freedom. At the minimum, that means protection from external threats (i.e. a military), and protection from internal threats (i.e. the justice system). A government must exist in order to provide these things, and it obtains the resources to do so via taxation. While the free market is good, it's not a panacea. Some things, the free market is not meant to do.

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