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> Federal income taxes are unfair and unnecessary. Since it had been demonstrated (via MMT) that taxes do not fund the Federal government,

That is incorrect

MMT does not propose that the state can fund itself without tax, except for some seriously deluded proponents who have lost their grip on reality

The use of resources by the state requires those resources are unavailable to other actors

Money is a slippery and an abstract concept. But it must always connect to physical reality

2 of the founders have said we don't need income taxes

Argument by oracle

Flagged as irrelevant to topic of discussion.

At the risk of doing what I'm about to ask you not to do: please don't comment just to talk about moderation decisions. It's boring and doesn't add to the discussion. If you want to flag or downvote, simply do it and move on.

> If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

It is wrong, not irrelevant

The right of, and purpose for, the state to tax is very relevant to the methods used

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