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# I have a much duller view of government
Go to work
Pay your taxes
Try not to be ill - the NHS costs money
Don't complain to your MP - he's busy
Spend a reasonable amount to keep the economy ticking over
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Wed 26 Oct 2005, 2:27, archived)
# or
* Take the money

* Call you an antisocial berk/drain on resources whan you want something back (even so much as a road to drive on in return for your 93p/litre)


(calms back down)
(Londingham ., Wed 26 Oct 2005, 2:29, archived)
# As if you'd even have a car
without governments.
(I helped save b3ta! Trinosaur, Wed 26 Oct 2005, 2:32, archived)
# Why not?
And I of course agree that to have a government is necessary..

but maybe not THIS one.
(Londingham ., Wed 26 Oct 2005, 2:34, archived)
# Historically, that's true. But I think in the present day
he could at least manage to have a car with a great deal less government.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Wed 26 Oct 2005, 2:36, archived)
# Maybe so.
I have no love for Blair and co. Just playing Devil's avocado.
But seriously, I don't think mass-production, oil refineries or motorways would exist without government and taxation. Whether this would be a good or a bad thing I'll leave up to you, but the desire for cheap fuel and smooth roads seems to jar with any anarchic tendency.
(I helped save b3ta! Trinosaur, Wed 26 Oct 2005, 3:00, archived)
# Depends if you mean the kind of anarchy in which people behave pleasantly
and build things, which is something we don't yet have the necessary cultural institutions to maintain, or the kind in which people rob each other and wreck things, which is what we'd get if government abruptly vanished. Sort of like glastonbury the year I went.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Wed 26 Oct 2005, 3:10, archived)
# in the US it's even simpler:
Try not to be ill - being ill costs money.
(I helped save b3ta! Sexy Picard 2000, Wed 26 Oct 2005, 2:31, archived)
# I doubt the US governmant cares
it's it mostly private - therefore taxable - therefore more cash for the government?
(I helped save b3ta! rob, Wed 26 Oct 2005, 2:33, archived)
# sounds about right.
It works, though... I've somehow not been seriously ill for decades.
(I helped save b3ta! Sexy Picard 2000, Wed 26 Oct 2005, 2:35, archived)
# hurrah private sector!
Everyone has insurance = not much $
(Eyaw_Nayr, Wed 26 Oct 2005, 2:36, archived)
# Bloke without insurance...
..fucked.

I'd rather keep the NHS, despite its many shortcomings.
(Londingham ., Wed 26 Oct 2005, 2:38, archived)