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DeusExMachinima
Sep 2, 2012

:siren:This poster loves police brutality, but only when its against minorities!:siren:

Put this loser on ignore immediately!

Notax posted:

So, can anyone think of a way, without resorting to hostages, to satisfactorily generate government revenue to provide services without taxation?

Serious answer: state-owned corporations (nationalization or monopolization isn't automatically a part of this, see China's model below) selling products and generating income for the state like a normal corp would for shareholders. And/or use a fee-based system wherein non-payment means you don't get access to any services, such as the police investigating your death if you're murdered. Somali xeer has a concept kinda like that.

rscott posted:

FWIW, the PLA (China, not Palestine) actually has an entire arm that owns industrial plants and poo poo that makes consumer goods, apparently they're fairly competent managers? I don't recall much else about it but there do exist real world examples to look at

Yeah, public concerns like Norinco has been around forever selling millions of AK47s to whoever wants some.

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