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The regime is good because they're paying you? Sounds like the logic of pure evil.
Citizenship of New Zealand is estimated to be worth over one million NZ dollars in terms of lifetime benefits accrued to a citizen. We havefree univarsal healthcare and reasonable free education up to university level.
For USA the lifetime benefits of citizenship may be much higher than NZ$1 million I suspect.
For Chinese people however it is probably rising faster than for any citizens anywhere.
There are now more new millionaires Made in China everyday than anywhere else.
We are individuals but we exist in a context of nation states.
Please note @coffeebadger conjuring falsehoods is not a convincing or good faith argument or practice - I am not paid by any government in fact today I calculated the taxes I must pay this year and I feel a little queasy! It is more than I have ever paid before. But that is only because I have had a successful year and must pay my dues to those fellow citizens less fortunate.
You can pay zero tax if you go to live in some countries like Congo, but that's up to you.
I suspect you will remain in the liberal western democracy domicile you currently occupy- in no small part because of the substantial benefits you enjoy due to your citizenship.
When I say they're paying you, what I mean is that your justification for the regime's existence is economic growth. That's not good enough. The regime is atheist. They're not right with Allah.
We are individuals but we exist in a context of nation states.
Nonsense. That's just an overeducated way of saying "Hey, you speak English? Gimme your money."
The nation and the state are two different things. The death cult that happens to win a monopoly on violence is not representative of every individual residing in the gang's territory.
You can pay zero tax if you go to live in some countries like Congo, but that's up to you.
I can pay zero taxes by not working. Congo has plenty of taxes. Taxation is just strangers pointing guns at you and demanding money.
funny wen the trolls continue to rear their ugly heads;
" Foot in mouth and head up ass-hole
Whatcha talkin' 'bout?
Difficult to dance 'round this one
'Til you pull it out, boy
You must have been so high" ~ Tool, The Pot
I can pay zero taxes by not working.
No you still pay sales/VAT taxes, CGTs, land taxes, tax on interest and dividends and the indirect tax which is the debasement of money that the states monopoly over the issuance and fiat enables.
But this is simply the reality of human organisation.
Taxes enable the organisational structures that create wealth and security in relation to other groups.
And how well those taxes are organised and utilised determines the relative wealth and security of nations and their citizens.
I doubt Congo has much in the way of taxes and if it does they are not well managed and utilised. The place is a mess...in large part legacy of western imperialism collapsing the cultural heritage and traditions and imposing institutions to serve the resource and wealth extraction of the Belgium/Russian or whoever the western slave driver tyrant was/is subjugating Congolese at the time...
China in contrast has built a highly effective and cohesive government that manages the physical and human resources to deliver increasing economic results.
They are well aware that if they want to retain their right to self determination they must have the ability to resist and reject US attempts to subjugate and enslave them.
In that they share a common objective with Iran.
China and Iran are some of the few nations with enough citizens aware enough and willing to resist US imperialism that they can.
All other nations like Japan, S.Korea, Australasia, Britain, EU, Canada etc are subservient to US military and monetary tribute...they are slaves to the US empire.
As for religion . . . it is religious extremism that is behind The Greater Israel Project.
Is that a good thing?
Religious fanatics have been behind some of the most heinous genocides and wars since before The Crusades.
Get religion out of government - separate the church from state.
They are well aware that if they want to retain their right to self determination they must have the ability to resist and reject US attempts to subjugate and enslave them.
They don't have that ability. We have a more expensive military. It's just better. We have more allies than you think. We don't want to use up ammo. From a human standpoint and a cost perspective we prefer not to. Surrender and then we can talk. Stop resisting World Police.
You have no interceptors. You have no RARE EARTHS.
USA is fucked.
Modern technology is producing asymmetric advantages - a $7000 shahed drone can knock out the USS Gerald Ford.
Looking forward to a world where US imperialism is defeated and all nations can determine their destinies without Uncle Sams parasitic war crimes meddling.
We have God. We have infinite interceptors.
The war in Iran teaches an old lesson about military spending.
Six hundred years ago, on a muddy field near Agincourt in northern France, King Henry V’s outnumbered, half-starved English army faced the flower of French chivalry. French knights were expensive, each man-at-arms the product of many years of training, his armor and warhorse a major investment.
Henry’s archers carried longbows that cost little, drawn by men trained in every village across the kingdom. When the volleys came, the knights fell by the hundreds. Quantity overwhelmed quality—and the mud helped. France lost the battle, but defeat in the war came not in the dying. It was in the impossibility of replacing what had died.
Patriot interceptors are exquisite, a wonder of engineering, the product of decades of accumulated technical mastery, each one the labor of hundreds, perhaps thousands. The Iranian drones they intercept are arrows—cheap, plentiful, made in bulk.
Since February, the U.S. has fired more than 1,300 Patriot interceptors against Iranian missiles and drones. Each interceptor costs around $4 million to destroy weapons that cost between $20,000 and $50,000. Based on the most recent rate of production, it will take two years forLockheed Martinto replace what has been fired in the past 2½ months. That is the economics of defeat, and our adversaries understand it.
Each Patriot is also a creature of supply chains we don’t fully control. The U.S.-made guidance chips depend on helium, supplies of which have been disrupted by the war in Iran. Even if Congress voted the funds tomorrow for 10,000 new interceptors, the metal and the gas would still have to be found, the workforce trained, and the production lines tooled. We are running short of the raw materials for our exquisite weapons while our adversaries flood the battlefield with cheap drones.
Next-generation fighters, multibillion-dollar carriers and so much more mean that although each is a marvel, we have too few, and they’re too hard to replace, making them too valuable to risk.
Yeah the asymmetry is expensive. Our side has dozens dead and yours has thousands. But as of today, we can still afford to blow up the country, and we'll probably have to since they're refusing to surrender.
Why did you let this happen? No country wants to step up to defend Iran from US agression? I call that a win. That's a good start.
No you don't.
All other nations like Japan, S.Korea, Australasia, Britain, EU, Canada etc are subservient to US military and monetary tribute...they are slaves to the US empire.
So if the US government makes the Canadian goverment pay a fine for existing, that's slavery, but when DC makes me pay taxes, that's "simply the reality of human organisation"? I don't get it.
What gives anyone a right to collect taxes from someone else? Winning a war?
I believe we as humans live in communities and that without governments we would be worse off and actually vulnerable to other human groups. If you do not believe me try it- go out and live outside the nation state and see how it goes for you! I bet you will not because maybe you are more talk than walk!
Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba all have nation-states. Where's their protection?
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I don't scroll like that. Someone disagrees me then they'll have to face judgment.
@coffeebadger does a great job of highlighting how morally bankrupt and indefensible the US-Zionist alliance really is.
They have all sought to protect their wealth and resources from US imperialism.
With China providing a buyer of commodities and supply of manufactured goods this is an option that US imperialism is currently trying to shut down.
But you knew all of this already.
They have all sought to protect their wealth and resources from US imperialism.
LOL what wealth and resources? None of these countries are capable of defending themselves. They're annexed by default.
The only country capable of putting up a decent fight is the PRC. We'd prefer not to kill over a billion people but Xi isn't giving us much of a choice.
The regime is good because they're paying you? Sounds like the logic of pure evil.