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0 pointsty68531y ago0 comments

And now we're paying 10x the fraction of our gdp as the early non war days.

The feds are bleeding us dry to line they and their corrupt friends pockets and their public debt.

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If we got rid of the federal government, and things didn’t break put into war or anything, would the issue be solved?

No nothing will 'solve' it, but it may attenuate it in some states. Although moving from size in early days to zero is your own strawman.

BriggyDwiggs421y ago

I guess my issue is more that I feel like you’re looking in the wrong direction here. Imo the government’s behavior, which I don’t think is quite as egregious as you’re making it out to be, is primarily downstream from other things (notably the interests of money). I asked that question because I don’t think that getting rid of the federal government would help people very much at all.

scarface_741y ago

A quick Google search shows the median income tax as percentage of income is around 15%

ty6853OP1y ago

Federal income tax was zero most of the time before 1913.

scarface_741y ago

15% is a far cry from “bleeding us dry”.

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BriggyDwiggs421y ago

If we got rid of the federal government, and things didn’t break put into war or anything, would the issue be solved?

ty6853OP1y ago

No nothing will 'solve' it, but it may attenuate it in some states. Although moving from size in early days to zero is your own strawman.

BriggyDwiggs421y ago

scarface_741y ago

A quick Google search shows the median income tax as percentage of income is around 15%

ty6853OP1y ago

Federal income tax was zero most of the time before 1913.

scarface_741y ago

15% is a far cry from “bleeding us dry”.

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