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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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rafamadeira
on 22/05/2014, 00:29:56 UTC
Guess what: most intelligent people understand that government and public services are a good thing, and that taxes are necessary to have them.
Most intelligent people 300 years ago thought people could be owned, leeches were medicine, and that outer space was filled with ether. The logical fallacy you are making is called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum
I am not advancing that fact that as proof that governments are good. The point is that calling taxation "stealing from the people" is not reasonable, since most people believe (rightly or wrongly) that taxes are necessary and everybody should pay them. 

Of course, many or even most people may think that certain taxes are unjustified or unfair, and that certain government spending is waste.  That does not invalidate the point.


Boa noite Sr Jorge Stolfi,

Sou brasileiro também, tenho 22 anos e sou graduando de administração na Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Percebi que você tem um bom conhecimento do que é a experiência Bitcoin e que está buscando se informar mais. Isso é muito bom para a nossa mídia, e melhor ainda para quem quer a informação que agrega conhecimento, não só pipoca e circo.

De qualquer forma, acho que tem bastante material aqui de muita qualidade evidenciando falhas no nosso atual sistema e com embasamento teórico e histórico (queda do império romano - por exemplo). Me coloco a disposição para conversamos, caso seja do seu interesse.

Rafael