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Lief 🗽
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« on: February 01, 2010, 04:03:48 PM »

Colorado Springs, the state's second largest city and famously a haven of conservatism, anti-tax sentiment and the other hallmarks of the "Tea Party" movement is completely out of money. Finally, the good citizens of Colorado Springs will no longer have to endure the hardship and armed robbery that is taxation and basic government services:

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Of course, the citizens of Colorado Springs were tempted by the librul tax and spenders. They could have surrendered their freedom and liberty and chosen to supplement their sales tax revenues with an increase in property taxes. Thankfully, the enlightened patriots of Colorado Springs rejected this Faustian bargain:

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The government and its monopoly on violence will no longer be able to shake down the good American citizens of Colorado Springs. They can rest safely in their increasingly-Third World city, marvel at their parks full of dead grass, their cracking streets left dark and unguarded due to turned off street lamps and laid off police officers, and their gangs of delinquent teenagers hanging around piles of trash, safe in the knowledge that they get to keep their hard-earned money, their guns, and their religion.
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Lief 🗽
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« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2010, 09:42:01 PM »

I find it remarkable that only one person has even attempted to mount a rebuttal yet.  It's also no coincidence that I have to click the "show" button to reveal most of the posts in this thread.

Wait. Are you saying facepalm jpgs that have been old since 2008 don't count as a rebuttal? Careful dude, that's pretty radical stuff for some of these guys.
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« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2010, 09:57:42 PM »

The arrogance...

Anyway, I could easily say the same kind of attack towards the left about California's predicament. Besides, most of you saw what you wanted to see here, and spun it as such.

Um... no... California's predicament can be blamed on the same anti-tax attitude.
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« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2010, 10:34:00 AM »

The problem, of course, is that many of the problems Detroit faces were caused by the sort of pro-free trade, anti-worker policies that most liberals oppose.
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