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> federal government now accepts donations if you don't want the money

This is silly. I prefer the money be spent on things that have a larger ROI, collectively, than I can attain individually. Destroying the money doesn't achieve that aim.



Well, the rest of us disagree. You need consensus for public institutions and no one on the left or the right has been willing to build that.


Actually, the "rest of us" largely agree, as reflected in the laws our elected representatives have established. We have collectively appropriated the money and set up the institutional framework for spending it. Folks smashing down that system are doing a significant part of it illegally, with no credible justification or public support, in several recent cases in contemptuous violation of direct court orders.


> the rest of us disagree

Irrelevant to the silliness of suggesting destroying money as a solution.




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