Gene Wolfe's Politics

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 26 Mar 2009, 20:32 · from 2009-March.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:32:28 -0700
Subject: (urth) Gene Wolfe's Politics
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On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:27 PM,  <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
> No, people will pay less taxes and therefore have more money and therefore
> go bankrupt less often.

I'm talking about the gummint going bankrupt, silly boy.

> Every penny of taxes is robbed at gunpoint from a citizen, mind you.

If you take that as your given libertarianism almost makes sense. However,
it isn't a very exact description of how taxation works.

> You're just not used to living in a well-run society, Dan'l. Where you
> live, the police are at war with the majority section of the population.

Then I suppose I should be glad I'm in the minority. The police seem
to me to be on my side.

> Well-run societies are inexpensive.

Actually, I find that to be the opposite of the truth.

Any social system will work if run by perfect people. It is the
imperfection of humans that f***s up both capitalism and
communism.

Therefore, the best-run society is that which does the most
to compensate for the imperfections of the individual humans
that actually implement it. That seems to me to be a large,
inefficient bureaucracy where nobody has the power to do
too much.

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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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