There is so much government intervention in the way that no one could ever know. — NOS4A2
It’s amazing how fast an institution can spend other people’s money. — NOS4A2
I have no theory as to what caused the Great Depression. — NOS4A2
The idea that America can fund things like universal healthcare out of the defense budget just doesn't make sense. Our super high medical spending/GDP from the private system does way more harm to deficits than defense spending. — Count Timothy von Icarus
I don’t care who it’s for. It’s done because others have given them the power to do it. — NOS4A2
If anyone other than the government acted like the government, took wealth as they did, they’d be rightfully called a criminall. That’s why it’s difficult to distinguish the government from any other criminal class. — NOS4A2
If anyone other than the government acted like the government, handcuffed people and locked them in a cell, they’d be rightfully called a criminal. That’s why it’s difficult to distinguish the government from any other criminal class. — Michael
The idea that America can fund things like universal healthcare out of the defense budget just doesn't make sense. — Count Timothy von Icarus
The state is a tool, true, but more of a machine. Its sole purpose is the exploitation of one class by another, and to secure its interests from insurrection from within and without. It doesn’t matter who wields it or pulls its levers, it goes on doing what it always has, in fact, what all states were created to do. If you were to man the state with a flock of honorable men, what exactly would change? Extortion, robbery, exploitation, coercion, mendacity, hypocrisy, rent-seeking, corruption—all of it would go on, simply because no state was formed for any other purpose. — NOS4A2
Its sole purpose is the exploitation of one class by another, and to secure its interests from insurrection from within and without. It doesn’t matter who wields it or pulls its levers — NOS4A2
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