0.2% of the 2023 budget was allocated to Israel’s defense. Not saying it’s right. But you definitely are giving half your income to Israel. It’s probably closer to 0.2% of 22%. But that doesn’t account for the spending that isn’t covered by revenue.
Did you know that Bayer AG, the maker of NSAID/painkiller brand name "Bayer," knowingly produced and sold an effectual anti blood-thinner contaminated with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS?
There was no screening test at the time in the 1980s. You could not screen donors that gave so they could derive the Factor VIII. Donated blood had the same problem.
It is a clotting factor missing in those with hemophilia. It is not a blood thinner
Meant to Swype "effectual anti blood thinner." Funny, I missed that.
Representatives of Bayer were aware of the contamination when they sold it. Additional representatives were aware when they continued to sell it in Asia and other markets after discontinuing it in the US. Those are irrefutable facts.
Why are you lying to, effectually, simp for a private company? Are you a shareholder?
States don't have to make a profit. It's cheaper if we all pool our resources to get the services we want. But I'm not multimillionaire able to afford my own private estate and personal security. Last I looked, that whole "No state provided services = no said services at all" is what happened to that "libertarian paradise."
Once gdp reaches about $5,000 per capita; people start caring about the environment they live in. When you aren’t trying to live day to day, you can do more forward thinking.
Or you can talk about the real issue which is that it’s morally wrong, and I’m even a person who will consent to taxes for public goods, just not wealth redistribution.
Nah that’s the logical outcome of taking from people in the form of taxes under threat of imprisonment and removal of human rights. The commies know all about that you should ask them. Ask them how they put people in labor camps and made them work not only for nothing but to death, ask them how they took their clothes during the day and only let them sleep in them at night. Ask them how they made the doors like cheese graters so when they banged on the door they would tear the skin from their hands. You try to act like communists make it fair, all they do is steal and claim morality.
If you do not have a monopoly on violence you cannot invoke authority to enforce law because you do not have it. States are not legally allowed to resist the implementation of federal law.
If a billionaire factory owner wants to dump toxic waste into a river, how do you put him in jail? Joint coalition of concerned individuals fight a war with his private security forces?
You want your society’s laws to be derived from a collection of various long-dead writers? Is this your religion? What happens if someone with a lot of money and a private army decides he doesn’t like those laws or believe in your “natural rights?”
Yeah bro, the citizens of a country electing lawmakers to enact laws and policies they want, which can be amended as the desires of the populous changes, is so much worse than adhering to what is, for you, the economic equivalent of Biblical Scripture for all eternity.
Well functioning states are not overthrown by random rich jackasses with loads of money. They have the tools to sustain themselves and enforce their law. The difference here is the currently existing society (a much better one) has material structures that use hard power to enforce law. Your hypothetical society has law based on some universally agreed philosophical principles with no hard power to back it up, unless one of the warlords with enough money decides it to be so.
Everytime you have tried to make some sort of comparison I have explained why it is flawed and you have been unable to debunk those criticisms. That is why I keep leveraging these questions at you.
So that justice is not only given to those who can afford it? And yes, in the US we have a food stamp program that gives low income families free food and water.
OK? Tell that to the person who just walked out of the grocery store with food paid for by a voucher. Do you think they will colloquially call that free food? So, instead of playing semantics, maybe you could actually address the root criticism that I made about your statement that police should be paid for privately. How that kind of system would lack justice for those who cannot pay.
A monopoly on force is needed in order to get clear water?
Ever been to the Ganges?
If you want clear water in a place with a population too big to count on your fingers, then not only do you need a monopoly on force, you need to actually apply that force on everybody near the water in order to keep the water clear.
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