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I envision a t-shirt or poster that has the famous Uncle Sam poster, with Uncle Sam's coat in red, and the blue band around his had in red and the stars in gold. And then the caption saying something like "I want your tax dollars" or something to that effect.
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A friend thinks it's the ultimate proof that the ABCT is false. I can't find much about it, except a few scattered, snippets here and there. It seems it wasn't a very severe panic.
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A discussion recently with a guy, I was told, believed in the Social Contract theory and could debate anyone into the ground on the subject. How very disappointed I was when the guy just repeated "you were born into a social contract" over and over again. I just told him to call me when he could prove that I was born into any contract. Does
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[quote user="jmorris84"] It would vary, depending on the type of road we are talking about. A major highway would most likely be funded by tolls. Roads in a housing development would most likely be paid for by the residents who live there. The difference being that a private company would be taking care of the services, not the state. [/quote
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I can think of a few ways: Toll roads, obviously. Renting the property next to the road to hotels, gas stations, etc. Billboard advertising. Don't charge for the roads at all. Make the roads be a loss leader, as they say in business parlance. For example, FTL gives away MP3s of their shows, and their entire website content for free. They take a
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[quote user="liberty student"] [quote user="Natalie"]"Private property is theft" LOL[/quote] Hey, the mutualists eat that stuff up! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_is_theft! [/quote] I dated a communist girl who wrote a long letter to her landlord explaining that, since his property was paid for (no mortgage) that
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[quote user="alimentarius"] [quote user="liberty student"]Libertarianism is not synonymous with conspiracy theory.[/quote] Maybe not, but my impression is that most of you believe the world is run by bankers, that Obama is a puppet, that the Bilderberger Group are setting the agenda for the world, that mainstream media is a government
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My daughter just got back from Cuba. She said that, in talking to the people there, she learned that a child 2 years old and younger is considered a fetus, and if one dies, it is recorded as still-born or as a spontaneous abortion. Thus, Cuba's government can show longevity rates that equal or surpass those of any first world country.
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[quote user="Knight_of_BAAWA"] [quote user="Josh"]I think it is obviously wrong that government spending cannot ever result in a net benefit to society.[/quote]It's not wrong. Consider where the money comes from. [/quote] Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
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