army1987 comments on Checklist of Rationality Habits - Less Wrong

117 Post author: AnnaSalamon 07 November 2012 09:19PM

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Comment author: scav 12 November 2012 11:12:09AM 1 point [-]

This is wandering away from the topic a bit. I doubt anyone could make a good case for any of:

  • taxes are inherently harmful and always misspent
  • taxes are always spent wisely
  • there exists any political system under which immensely rich people couldn't wield a lot of political power to try to further enrich themselves.
  • the immensely rich bother to conspire for any other purpose or actually care about politics much beyond what it can get them personally
  • there is literally nothing a democratically elected government can or will do to limit the political power of the immensely rich in any way.
Comment author: [deleted] 12 November 2012 11:16:55AM *  0 points [-]

I ADBOC with the negation of those statements (provided “there exists” in the third one means “there has existed so far” rather than “there could ever exist in principle”).