<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">> still have taxes<div><br></div><div>Uh, that doesn't sound very libertarian. <br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Aug 11, 2021, at 2:02 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] libertarian city - from Quora<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class="gmail-q-text" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#282829">Von Ormy, Texas.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="gmail-q-text" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word"><span class="gmail-q-inline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#282829"><a href="https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a56856/von-ormy-texas/" target="_blank" title="www.esquire.com"><b><span style="color:#195FAA">This Texas Town Went Full Libertarian and Hilarity Ensued</span></b></a></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#282829"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="gmail-q-text" style="mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word"><span class="gmail-q-inline"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#282829"><a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-freest-little-city-in-texas/" target="_blank" title="www.texasobserver.org"><b><span style="color:#195FAA">The Rise and Fall of the “Freest Little City in Texas”</span></b></a></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#282829"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="box-sizing:border-box;word-break:break-word"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">bill </span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">w<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">The most common way to argue against libertarianism is to conflate it with anarchy. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">If they had gone full Libertarian, they would still have a fire department, a police department, a legal system, a water and sewer system, they would still have taxes to pay for it. Anarchy doesn’t have any of these things. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">spike<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div></div></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>extropy-chat mailing list</span><br><span>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</span><br><span>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>