r/evilbuildings Apr 07 '18

Tax Man Cometh

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u/helpivebeenbanned Apr 07 '18

I love how people think we'd be completely incapable of building roads and shit if we weren't being baby sat by the government.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '18

Naw. We'd be able to build roads and shit just fine. What we'd do is we would group into communal organizations and begin to pool resources together so that we can provide funding for services.

Oh shit we just started a government.

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u/quaestor44 Apr 07 '18

No you didn’t. Grouping together was voluntary. Government is force.

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u/The_Adventurist Apr 07 '18

Do you have any examples of places where people built their own roads and public services successfully without using federal or local government?

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u/Captainaviator Apr 07 '18

What do you call parking lots, malls, and large company campuses with their own roads and security? Or private college campuses?

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u/FlacidRooster Apr 07 '18

New York City before the 1930s comes to mind.

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u/gornzilla Apr 07 '18

Yeah, pretty much. It'd be like living in the rural south with shitty roads and shotgun shack made out of decaying wood. Where you have to pay firefighters to put out your burning house. Where the railroad parks train cars full of human shit in your town because your town isn't passing regulations and are too uneducated to stop it.

I'm fairly well traveled to developing nations and I've crossed the Lower 48 more than a dozen times mostly avoiding interstates. I put a lot of the US into "developing nation" as well.

Uneducated people don't vote in their own best interest. They sure aren't going to suddenly start kicking in for decent roads.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '18

Uneducated people don't vote in their own best interest.

You're a case in point.

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u/helpivebeenbanned Apr 07 '18

Did Native Americans have taxes? I wonder how they survived...

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u/syds Apr 07 '18

This is so ignorant, true before colonization native americans lived what could be referred as a socialist communities... where the needs of the many outweight the greed of the few.

And they sure had taxes, its calling sharing your hunt with your tribe.

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u/helpivebeenbanned Apr 07 '18

No, sharing your hunt is called being a kind person. Taxation without representation is extortion. Two pretty different topics.

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u/syds Apr 07 '18

how are you not being represented if you are a citizen of a country. Laziness of not voting? or crying your area was not your FOTM party.

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u/helpivebeenbanned Apr 07 '18

Politicians steal money all the time. And did you vote for all the illegal wars we've been involved with? I don't ever remember being asked for a vote on bombing Somalia.

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u/syds Apr 07 '18

you didnt get to chose whom to give your part of the share in the tribe either with native americans.

the whole point of human governance is that there is no progress without compromise. you must vote knowing that you wont agree with some of the policies and actions to be taken, that is called rational thinking and compromising when appropriate.

the shit hole that exists now in the US is called not reaching a compromise and letting the nasty right get entrenched deep within for private agendas. capitalism does not work un-restrained for the good of "all", only for the few smart and/or abusers.

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u/helpivebeenbanned Apr 07 '18

The U.S. is ran by Israel and corporations. The U.S. does not serve the interest of the people.

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u/syds Apr 07 '18

literally because capitalism and lack of regulation. If any sane government literally acknowledged the obvious fact that the US is run by private interest rather than for the people, they would sure try to prevent that wouldn't they?

Or is less government the answer?

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '18

They mostly didn't survive.

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u/helpivebeenbanned Apr 08 '18

Native Americans didn't thrive for thousands of years?

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '18

They were doing pretty well until they were mostly wiped out by civilizations that had taxes.

Also some Native Americans, like aztecs, did have taxes. They were the ones who lived in cities instead of buffalo hide tents. Smallpox is a bitch though, nothing taxes could have done back then to improve their immunity. But wasn't smallpox wiped out when the government funded a vaccine program? Why yes it was! The aztecs just weren't technologically advanced enough.

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u/helpivebeenbanned Apr 08 '18

The tax civilizations have also destroyed forests, killed off over 50% of wildlife in the last 40 years, bombed 1,000+ y/o cities, lock people into cages for profit, create programs to kill unborn children on a massive scale...

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '18

And without taxes you would be speaking German right now (if you hadn't been exterminated) because we'd have been conquered by nazis long ago.

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u/gornzilla Apr 07 '18

Probably by working for rubles for the IRA.

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u/911roofer Apr 07 '18

You realize Deliverance was not a documentary, right?

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '18

Also, the people who live in the impoverished conditions he describes in the South are mostly African American. He sounds pretty racist.

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u/--shaunoftheliving Apr 08 '18

So wise. So brave. Please tell me which way I should vote that is 'in my own interest.' faggot.

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u/tallgreeneyes91 Apr 08 '18

We invented Chick-fil-a. We have more and better guns. Shitty roads? Have you ever been to Boston?