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Re: Bitcoin confusion?

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From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 18:46
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On 2018-02-08, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Gareth's Downstairs Computer
> <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> On 08/02/2018 11:12, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>> 
>>> Now possibly taxes might in some way not be a debt, but they look
>>> like one to me.
>> 
>> Taxation is a protection racket promoted by those who ride
>> its gravy train.
>
> Taxation is a way of funding common services that benefit "all".
> (FSVO "all")

Taxation benefits the people.  (Politicians are people, right?)

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