(urth) Gene Wolfe Fans Talk Politics (Again)

[brunians at brunians.org]

No, that's not the funny one.

The one where the government creates money, you know how it goes.

The other has been dealt with in other posts.

Do the funny thing again, I love it when you do that.



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> Money can come from any number of places, but ultimately it needs the
> authority of something like government to make it work. You're smart
> enough to know that.
>
> Meanwhile, by attacking that strawman you've avoided responding to
> my post below.
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:00 PM,  <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
>> Tell us where money comes from, again, Dan'l. Now that the shock of
>> seeing
>> someone as intelligent as you say something that bogus is wearing off, I
>> find it incredibly amusing on a number of levels.
>>
>>
>>
>> .
>>
>>
>>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:43 PM,  <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
>>>> The government wants you to pay taxes, which they are going to spend
>>>> on
>>>> whatever. You or I may approve of everything they spend it on, or we
>>>> may
>>>> approve of some of it, or we may approve of none of it. No matter: we
>>>> must
>>>> pay. If we do not, legal processes will be begun against us, and we
>>>> may
>>>> be
>>>> forced to pay fines, or sent to prison or even (if we are extremely
>>>> unlucky) killed.
>>>>
>>>> What I would like you (or someone) to explain to me is how this
>>>> process
>>>> can be described as consensual. It seems to me much more like
>>>> extortion
>>>> by
>>>> threat of violence.
>>>
>>> It's not very complicated, actually.
>>>
>>> One chooses to be a member of a society. If one does not like that
>>> society, one leaves. If one chooses to remain, one has agreed to
>>> "play" by the rules of that society's "game." (Note: the US is not like
>>> the CCCP, where people needed permission to leave, and even then
>>> were stripped of most-to-all their possessions when doing so.)
>>>
>>> The advantage of a democratic "game" is that the rules can be
>>> changed to suit the people "playing." Nobody will always get all
>>> the rules they want - that's the art of the compromise.
>>>
>>> As it happens, one of the rules by which we choose to "play" is
>>> taxation. If you don't like it, strongly enough, you are encouraged
>>> to go live in Somalia.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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