Meme Thread for Memes and other assorted Lulz

[TheReal_ND]

[DBTrek]

Sometimes it takes a little ANCOM to fire up an ANCAP.

[Fife]

All I wanna know is how you pay for the commons. Should be easy.

It is. Easy-peasy.

Go read up on public goods. I've only begged you to do this about 100 times.

I know what a public good is, Fife. You just don't want to tell me how you plan to pay for them.

National defense, for example. A public good that gets paid for by _________________.

(You fill in the blank, please.)

Whether something is a public good or not is irrelevant to the question of how the good is paid for.

If we disband the IRS and repeal the Sixteenth Amendment, neither muh roads nor muh helicopters magically disappear.

I know that you throw a tantrum when I try to help the discussion by saying "go read this," and I'm not unsympathetic. Here's something I googled in 10 seconds, and didn't even read. If you want to read it, I will also, and we can discuss whatever points it brings up.

EDIT: here's the link, sorry. It was the first hit for "how do we pay for public goods without taxes" : https://www.progress.org/articles/without-taxes

[SuburbanFarmer]

Sometimes it takes a little ANCOM to fire up an ANCAP.

Magnificent.

[SuburbanFarmer]

It is. Easy-peasy.

Go read up on public goods. I've only begged you to do this about 100 times.

I know what a public good is, Fife. You just don't want to tell me how you plan to pay for them.

National defense, for example. A public good that gets paid for by _________________.

(You fill in the blank, please.)

Whether something is a public good or not is irrelevant to the question of how the good is paid for.

If we disband the IRS and repeal the Sixteenth Amendment, neither muh roads nor muh helicopters magically disappear.

I know that you throw a tantrum when I try to help the discussion by saying "go read this," and I'm not unsympathetic. Here's something I googled in 10 seconds, and didn't even read. If you want to read it, I will also, and we can discuss whatever points it brings up.

So, the plan is to live on the ashes of empire? Why aren't we all speaking Vizigoth then?

[DBTrek]

Whether something is a public good or not is irrelevant to the question of how the good is paid for.

If we disband the IRS and repeal the Sixteenth Amendment, neither muh roads nor muh helicopters magically disappear.

Brilliant.
You can disband the whole Roman Empire and their roads won’t disappear either. You can drown a sculptor and their statues don’t turn to dust.

Clearly sculptors are unnecessary for the making of statues because you can get rid of them and our statues will still be here.

How did we miss that?

[Fife]

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QUICK! Without googling, who is Stephen Paddock?

[K@th]

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EDIT: here's the link, sorry. It was the first hit for "how do we pay for public goods without taxes" : https://www.progress.org/articles/without-taxes

Fees and private, pay per use roads, fire and police.



Not Libertarian at all. Not even ... close?

[Hastur]

Who pays for lighthouses or gps satellites without government?

[TheReal_ND]

NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN