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That's not too far fetched, actually. Consider that we all need housing while the annual property taxes are often more than the mortgage payment. If the government would do that, don't be surprised at anything.

That's nonsequitor. Tobacco and food are both legal consumables. Just like pot is now a legal consumable in New Jersey. The dispensaries aren't as profitable as the untaxed bootleggers. Why do you suppose that is?

Okay, so when Peta starts making more noise and the government decides to make another huge money grab with a four hundred percent tax on meat, you'd rather starve than dodge the tax? You're full of soup.

Not the same thing at all.

What project?

Okay, so everyone who has ever been to a speakeasy is a criminal. Take your brain fart someplace else. You can't reasonably outlaw sneezing on Sundays and expect everybody to comply.

Oh, now I'm a criminal. First, I'm not the one looting stores, setting fires or generally acting as an injurious menace to the population. Second, when a law or a tax happens to be unjust, it eventually gets repealed. There will in time be a president or a governor who will end the tax.

When it's the end of the world, all the politicians and people who occupy corporate board rooms will drop their agendas and adjourn. No one will have the endurance to collect on their insurance.

I don't parrot just to "fit in". There's a difference.

That's not how a free society works.

How am I "abusing" it? If I pay a person to sketch a thing for me, the artwork is his and the concept is mine.

Ha ha.

And you still have no thoughts of your own.

You, for starters. You haven't had an original thought since 1998.

Being rich is not the same thing as having a guaranteed income. Learn the difference before you try to criticize me. You just look stupid.

What makes that important? Am I supposed to be like certain clowns in this board who never seem to be doing anything but bending with the wind and adopting the parroted narrative on everything? That's not a person at all.

I'm not here to read rooms.

Does that make any difference? Why buy the well when the oil is free?

So, I guess you didn't read the part that says I'm not the artist. That's what I wrote here.

The whole point of this particular conversation is that I don't own or want a car because I don't want any of the liabilities or obligations that go along with it.

It's better than the alternative. Drive my own car and end up paying for somebody else's shenanigans.

Beet red, same shape.

That looks like the backpack I use for shopping.