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[–] 21595303? 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
I've thought about this often. Every fucking lunch and dinner they eat at places I can't afford to go, all the vacations and trips they take that I can't afford to, etc.. it's absolutely mind blowing the amount of tax money that could be saved by not having a corrupt government. And they could give one shake of a rats ass about us living or dying.
[–] 21603832? 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago (edited ago)
LIteral interpretation of the original Constitution... Have you really read it and taken the time to understand what life would have been like under that document?! Imagine the following:
Being able to work for silver that never loses value, buy a piece of land as you and the seller sees fit, build ANY home on it you want and deal with no one but a private electric compay for utilities that has to compete against a dozen other groups. No building codes. No access rules, no specially inspected lumber, no building inspector, no NOTHING... If your place sucks you get to fail and no one saves you. If its awesome then you get the benefit of it... Simple as that. You could own your home free and clear on your own land before you are out of highschool... EASILY. One tiny example...
How about guns booze and weed?! Easy... You got your house and a bit of land. You let people camp in the summer in your wood lot. You grow weed and pick fruit from neighbors, ferment it all and run it through a still you made. You sell the brandy aged a few years on the roadside! A 9 year old kid comes by with a silver coin and buys a bottle for his grandpa and rides away on a quad on a public road with no plate and no lights and no turn signals... Later that day you decide you want a machine gun! You go down to the hardware store with a pile of random silver from your farm stand along with some hash you pressed from the weed you grow because the owner of the hardware store is a stoned hippy with a bad back who cant really farm himself any more. He trades you the silver and hash for a nice shiny new machine gun. You load it up... sling it and stop by the local school to pick your kid up... The teachers in the office comment on your nice shiny new gun! Going shooting? Heck yeah! Little billy will be so excited!
THIS. LITERALLY. IS. THE. LEVEL. OF. FREEDOM. THE. CONSTITUTION. GIVES. US.
[–] 21604135? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
This is the fucking REPLY OF THE YEAR!! Honestly, I hadn't thought about it to that depth but damn, it's the truth! I was just speaking in terms of today's government and bureaucracy and the amount of money we pay in taxes is astronomically high. But combine that with the restrictions that accompany it and we're a world away from what we were intended to be (as a country). Just about everything previous generations worried and warned about happening, has. Great reply! Thanks, made my day!!