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n0us · 2016-02-22 · Original thread
The Cost of Rights

http://www.amazon.com/The-Cost-Rights-Liberty-Depends/dp/039...

is an interesting read on this topic. It basically talks about how taxes are necessary and these movements to eliminate taxes completely are completely off base. I would argue that a sufficiently extreme distribution of wealth makes democracy impossible and the "rights" that the Saudis afford their people are not "rights" at all in any meaningful sense but rather just a way of placating people so they can hold onto control of the oil.

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