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Verrerogo 1 point ago +1 / -0

Yes. If you don't fork over the money for an alternative to feudalism, tribalism, local warlord-ism, that is what you default to. I am in favor of the modern nation. With its army and laws. This nation had to become a real nation. That will require an army, and an army must be paid. It is only lefties who think people work and fight for some abstract do-gooder ideal. They do for a while. But if you want it to last, it has to pay, one way or another.

Communism is just King-George-ism with less fancy clothes, no ermine cloak, and no lace ruff. Same otherwise.

SOMEBODY is going to bother you, and that's going to cost you taxes, one way or another.

We all wish we could retire to the deep woods and just feed ourselves, and not need to pay social costs. Alas that never, ever works. We are not in the Garden of Eden and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young were wrong. You can't get back to the Gaaarden.

Not yet anyway. If God brings another era, sure. We have to hope for that, but it isn't here yet.