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		jimbokun 6 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We're committing $6.25B to give 25M children a fin... “it's still not democratic to let people individually decide who gets what dollar.” Only way to prevent people from deciding who gets their dollars is to abolish private property and let the state make all those decisions.

jacquesm 6 days ago [–]

That's not a realistic position to take, no society works on that principle. The state always levies taxes (ok, Somalia may be excepted here) and the state always does the allocation of that money.

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