Originally Posted by
contrails12
i agree that it’s lazy to simply say “love it or leave it”. And saying that’s all that’s being said to you ignores the numerous posts by myself and others stating all the reasons you should stay. Just giving another option, among many, on how to deal with the slavery (in your view) that is taxation
you’re feigning oppression is just laughable seeing as you have benefited from our system greatly (as have I)
I have never claimed to be oppressed. I just find it odd that so many people who claim that "you are free to leave" do not realize that it is not true. Do you not find it odd that you cannot leave freely? That you must first be granted permission to leave? What purpose is there in preventing those who wish to leave from leaving? If this country is so great, why prevent people from leaving? Why aren't the individual states free to leave if their people vote to do so? This boils down to the idea that the State views the people and the land as property.
But let’s keep playing:
-So we determined that “the jungle” was purely fictional and in no way resembled reality of the industrial revolution. The levels of food borne illness, child labor, environmental damage is basically neutral now as then. Check.
-the FDA will be outsourced to a private third party that is beholden to those that they are regulating. The industry will pay the regulators and pass on the cost to us vice paying taxes to public entity that is accountable to voters. Got it.
so now, how do we handle criminal justice? Courts, and cops, prosecutors, and judges?
There have been and do currently exist private courts and private police forces.
Here is an interesting article about it, I am not advocating for or against this particular model:
https://columbialawreview.org/conten...all-around-us/
It may not be perfect, but neither is the current system. The point is that there are solutions that do not involve government and that may be better and more accountable. Further, competing systems are more like to bring out better outcomes, as those systems that work will be adopted and gain traction while systems that don't will be abandoned. Bad ideas in business die fast, bad ideas in government may never die.