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Vogon_Glory

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4. Taxes are what we pay for civilized society

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Dec 31, 2025, 03:42 PM

Dec 31

A quote from Oliver Wendel Holmes.

Know-nothing reactionary pod-casters may be entranced by no-tax/no-services philosophies, but the proof comes when they wipe out on unmaintained roads and the for-profit medevac helicopter won’t pick them up.

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