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Comment by mmirate

> payday loan fees ... playing the lottery ... poor financial decisions and money management ... predatory lending ... consumer spending

Those are all basically taxes on idiocy and innumeracy.

Idiocy and innumeracy are arguably vices whose prevalence in society should be counteracted.

In the absence of the abject and horrifying immorality/aggression/violence of state eugenics, isn't taxation the next most effective thing?

parent mmirate 8 years ago

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