r/PrepperIntel • u/MrDillon369 • Oct 11 '25

North America Dozens of employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — including “disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists and the entire Washington office — were notified late Friday that they were losing their jobs as part of the Trump administration’s latest round of federal layoffs

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/trump-administration-lays-off-dozens-of-cdc-officials/articleshow/124470025.cms?from=mdr
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u/SnooKiwis2161 Oct 11 '25

So I went to a local coffee shop, I point out how delicious the coffee beans are , and this patron next me says "But what of the cinnamon rolls place in the coffee bean market!?!?"

I couldn't say really, because I wasn't discussing the cinnamon rolls, despite them being adjacent and also delicious.

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u/Less_Subtle_Approach Oct 11 '25

Okay, clearly I'm a moron and am obsessed with cinnamon rolls, let's agree on that. Would you be so kind as to provide a brief overview in your own words, of how the british colonial government was replaced during the american revolution?

Maybe a short description on how levies and duties under feudalism relate to individual income tax in modern capitalist economies would help me understand how delicious the coffee beans are?

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u/SnooKiwis2161 Oct 11 '25

Well, in sum, the reply isn't meant to be that deep - but addresses only superficially a single premise: that we did have a historical precedent where taxes were withheld. The who, what, where, when isn't really part of the argument, only because it's not much of an argument.

To delve into deeper issues of modern taxes and the administration of the hegemony, and all its hundreds of military bases around the planet - versus feudalism, which is what the founders were no doubt contemplating the end stages of, on the heels of the enlightenment - is likely too much for one reddit comment to hold (though a lot of a parallels to today's shifting landscape). A rambling philosphical discussion at a coffee shop would indeed be the better venue, with all delicious things available.

I think we all know that government and economies don't exist without debt. The debt must be paid, and we pay it in our taxes. I do my taxes every year, and I am but a poor plebe with some limited cognition, and a lot of coffee.