Check out this comment from Adam E. Zandarski on my blog: “Putting a man on the moon, or building pyramids and ziggaurats, while also creating new technologies and systems of thought, serve to bind a people with a feeling of combined accomplishment.” Take that, Gene Callahan!

You see, most “civilizations” also had cruel religious rituals and inhuman cults as an integral part of their governance. One step forward in human evolution was to drop this unnecessary bloodshed, but the fact that many had them did not justify them. The same is true for the state, it’s just that …

Well, looks like your cousins can’t go to school cause you took it from them. Well maybe if we didn’t have to pay over 40% of our income to taxes, so, ask the government about that. Do you have a garden? Well, I’m not a student of anthropology. I already have a degree with all A’s in anthropo…

So, you admit to being a thief and an extortionist. But if you had any guts, you’d rob actual convenience stores and banks yourself rather than relying on the government to plunder the people “legally.” Maybe in law school they’ll teach you that stealing is wrong, if your father failed to impart th…

I dont fear and am honest with the IRS, I pay them as little as I am required to and do the same for my clients. I have a problem with the rates, as does everybody. But I understand that Southington, Ohio wouldnt have roads without a system for the People to get their money together and pave the roa…

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And you still have not vindicated your belief in the morality of taxation or the existance of the IRS. The fact that you try to pay as little as your required to demonstrates the point. If the tax dropped to 20% tommororw would you still pay as if it were 40%? What if it disappeared? If you’re not …

This misconception is that individualism proscribes collective action i.e. all collective acts are performed by collectives. Individualism does not proscribe collective action. Collectivism proscribes individual action. You can cooperate with someone voluntarily, but you cannot be commanded to act …

Did you just try to say the great trust buster is on your side in this debate? The creator of the national parks system. The Mentor to Franklin; creator of the New Deal. Really? Did you just try and make the argument that social democracy isnt what made America the so-called “greatest nation in the …

Thats my point. Your willing to provide for family and colleagues. What about the people you arent associated with? Are you just going to let them starve?

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Nothing is free. I think it is barbaric that you propose to steal from people in order to give others an arbitrary set of “needs”

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