From: Jim Choate <ravage@einstein.ssz.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 10:26:22 +0800
To: cypherpunks@einstein.ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: RE: How to solve the tax problem w/o anarchy or force (fwd)
Message-ID: <199811100210.UAA15017@einstein.ssz.com>
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> From: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net>
> Subject: RE: How to solve the tax problem w/o anarchy or force (fwd) 
> Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 17:25:45 -0800 

> I don't think many cpunks (and other freedom loving people) are necessarily
> nihilistic so much as they have come to the conclusion that to ignore and/or
> subvert government has higher probability of success than trying to reform
> it -- much to the demise of the Libertarian Party.

There is certainly little historical evidence to support such a thesis.

> The whole cryptography
> and geodesic communications being the bane of the nation-state theme tends
> to support this idea.

Cryptography is the bane of anyone who wants to listen in, it's not just
nation-states that get hit with it. As to geodesic communications, it's been
around a lot longer than the Internet and nation states are still here.



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