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> You might as well advocate for the abolition of taxation to "even the playing field." The resulting societal disaster be darned.

No, not at all. Taxation is another broken system that needs to be fixed, not abolished. Voting has proven to do nothing. The act of protesting has done little, and continues to be attacked with nonsense bills.

All that's left is what everyone has been repeating for the past five decades: To vote with our money.

Now people are creating ways to remove their money from systems that are controlled by regulators that continue to disappoint. It's a consequence more than it is anything else. Obviously this, too, has its own set of drawbacks, but "societal disaster" really is not the one I'm worried about, because we're already headed that way with what he have right now.



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