Lumifer comments on Open thread, August 5-11, 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 07 August 2013 07:56:51PM 4 points [-]

And of course any good could be picked and given to the government as a monopoly and then one might think this a good way to fund the government

Historically, a government monopoly was a very popular method for funding governments -- see e.g. salt.