Message from @Angus
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Has anyone seen this?
*The State attempted to analogize the town's rights to the rights of homeowners to regulate the conduct of guests in their home. The Court rejected that contention, noting that ownership "does not always mean absolute dominion." The court pointed out that the more an owner opens his property up to the public in general, the more his rights are circumscribed by the statutory and constitutional rights of those who are invited in.*
*In its conclusion, the Court stated that it was essentially weighing the rights of property owners against the rights of citizens to enjoy freedom of press and religion. The Court noted that the rights of citizens under the Bill of Rights occupy a preferred position. Accordingly, the Court held that the property rights of a private entity are not sufficient to justify the restriction of a community of citizens' fundamental rights and liberties.*
@Fitzydog yes
I wonder if this could be theoretically used against social media?
Wtf statistics did Jeff Daniels' writer read?
sluuuurp
"taxation is the fee for living in a society, if you don't want taxes go live somewhere where there aren't any and see how fun that is"
opinions?
Some taxation is. At the state and local level to pay for law enforcement, courts, fure, roads, ect. However there is a limit to this. And these days that has gone far beyond.
The problem isn't taxation itself. The problem is using taxation for things other than essential government functions.
What essential means can be debated. But we can all agree that there's a shit ton of stuff that the government subsidizes that it shouldn't be at the state, local and federal level.
@Angus That's obviously false, societies have existed before without taxation so there is no inherent necessity for civilisations to enact coercive methods of state funding. And to tell somewhere to go live somewhere else is begging the question as it already assumes that the state has a legitimate claim to the common land
has the state become too dependent on taxes?
I remember income tax was only instituted for wartime
but then it never went away
@Angus The state is a parasitical entity in concept and in practice, it is dependent on the people it takes control over and coerces to exist at all
There is no "**too** dependent" about it, the state IS dependent regardless
forced prostitution
bake sales
is this how the gubmint will still make money
I’ve had night terrors because of this video this past week
with this video
yes
this is how
would direct democracy work in a small country such as sweden
you mean mob rule democracy?
yee
@Angus Ez, we get rid of the state
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then what
you just want anarchy?
Yup
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here are some places you could find that
I don't think the people in any modern country is going to willingly descend into this