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A society is always about 3 days of hunger away from a violent revolution. Start your clocks.

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[-] DarkAri 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well they print money so not really any amount of people, but at this point you are probably better off just paying taxes to your state, because the federal government is mostly just a Mafia middleman anyways, which has become very apparent under trump. Taking people's own tax money away from them because they don't like him or his terrible policies.

The reality is almost all of this money, well the part that is leftover to give back to the people, is given back to the states anyways, just with a bunch of strings and hands in it. The federal government likes this so that they can manipulate what is taught in schools and road laws and everything else. The states rely on getting their citizens money back from the federal government and so they get this defacto management by executive agencies and stuff.

Abolish the states = abolish taxes

[-] ameancow@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

We are a long, long, long, long way from doing away with borders, as true as the idea is for a better world.

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