Gene Wolfe's Politics

Jeff Wilson · 27 Mar 2009, 05:10 · from 2009-March.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:10:32 -0500
Subject: (urth) Gene Wolfe's Politics
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brunians at brunians.org wrote:
> No, people will pay less taxes and therefore have more money and therefore
> go bankrupt less often.
> 
> Every penny of taxes is robbed at gunpoint from a citizen, mind you.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Well-run societies are inexpensive.

Can you point out some example well-run, non-robbing societies that 
anyone here would want to live in?

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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