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Inigo Montoya said:
I don't fit into either side... there are things that I agree with on each side of politics... and tbh... it's really unfair that the political system in most of the democratic world means that you either have to be left or right...
I think that what the government has become today is a joke... It's controlled by money.... it works for corporations and on a federal level the government is NOT for the people anymore...
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So do you think it ever was FOR the people?
 
"You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time."

John Lydgate.

That quote sums up how I feel about politics.
 
@Inigo Montoya

I am a libertarian.
In fact I'm a little bit more extreme than that ... I am an anarcho-capitalist.
I am well versed in Austrian School Economics and have come to the conclusion that no government is best.
 
Spock said:
@Inigo Montoya

I am a libertarian.
In fact I'm a little bit more extreme than that ... I am an anarcho-capitalist.
I am well versed in Austrian School Economics and have come to the conclusion that no government is best.
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So I just did a quick little read on Wikipedia and it say that anarcho-capitalist....

In an anarcho-capitalist society, law enforcement, courts, and all other security services would be operated by privately funded competitors rather than centrally through compulsory taxation. Money, along with all other goods and services, would be privately and competitively provided in an open market.
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Ummm So you want private companies to run our prison/court/law enforcement... Do you not realise that this is what is happening in the US which has the largest prison population in the world? and if you add up the prison population on the next like 30 courtiers it still does not come close to what the US has? In this systems prison companies make money keeping people in Prison... It's pretty much modern day slavery....
 
Inigo Montoya said:
I don't fit into either side... there are things that I agree with on each side of politics... and tbh... it's really unfair that the political system in most of the democratic world means that you either have to be left or right...
I think that what the government has become today is a joke... It's controlled by money.... it works for corporations and on a federal level the government is NOT for the people anymore...

EDIT: I just saw your post.... lets keep playing Truth or Dare Truth
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You watch too much Vice.
 
Inigo Montoya said:
Ummm So you want private companies to run our prison/court/law enforcement... Do you not realise that this is what is happening in the US which has the largest prison population in the world? and if you add up the prison population on the next like 30 courtiers it still does not come close to what the US has? In this systems prison companies make money keeping people in Prison... It's pretty much modern day slavery....
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What you have described above is a common criticism, but fallacious I'm sorry to say.

Think about what the difference is between:
1) A private company funded by voluntarily paying customers, and,
2) A private company funded by involuntarily paid taxes.

Government contractors are not free market participants. They are an extension of government itself.
 
Spock said:
This question should make more sense now. Because I agreed with every other thing @Inigo Montoya said, except the last line.
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Of course the government works for corporations look at Tony Abbott... he took away the carbon tax and the mining tax... Why? To please his backers!

Yes @reepbot the prisons are full because of the tough drug laws... but you have to realise that private prison's are there to deal with all the people from the drug war and now that the system is set up... well hey they might as well keep as many people locked up as possible.. gotta keep that money rolling in right?
 
Spock said:
What you have described above is a common criticism, but fallacious I'm sorry to say.

Think about what the difference is between:
1) A private company funded by voluntarily paying customers, and,
2) A private company funded by involuntarily paid taxes.

Government contractors are not free market participants. They are an extension of government itself.
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Like I said I only had a very quick look at the Wikipedia page... I will have a better look at this anarcho-capitalist ideal another time.
 
Inigo Montoya said:
Of course the government works for corporations look at Tony Abbott... he took away the carbon tax and the mining tax... Why? To please his backers!
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Oh my lord! One of us is going home in an ambulance tonight!

Without making any arguments, let me just state my position:
a) Carbon Dioxide emissions have negligible effect on global temperatures.
b) Taxation is theft.
 
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