On 2016-12-04, Stormin' Norman wrote:
Freedom isn't free, and currently our citizens are insulated from the
costs of maintaining our representative democracy. We have what is

The usual statist twaddle. Slavery is slavery, no matter how you try
to sugarcoat it with sanctimonious drivel about "maintaining our
representative democracy."

Taxation is institutionalized theft, and while it cannot be entirely
avoided as long as the State exists, it should be minimized. The vast
majority of taxes today go to fund the welfare state, not the military.
End the New Deal and the Great Society and taxes will drop drastically.

If you want to characterize UMS as slavery, that is your business. I
would like to see it implemented as the price of voting citizenship.

If tied to voting, a la Heinlein's "Starship Troopers," rather than
"serve or go to jail/be shot" that takes the idea out of the realm of
slavery and actually makes sense. In fact universal suffrage is a very
bad idea. A lot of the economic problems we face today stem from the
fact that non-producers are permitted to sit on their asses, draw a
welfare check, and continue to vote themselves more and more largesse
out of the public treasury. (Which of course comes out of their more
productive neighbors' pockets.)

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