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To take this one step further, why don't we see all big-brother actions under the lens of just another tax?
They have financial and non-financial costs based on how people respond to them; so it should be possible to put a price on them.
When the tax on children is too high, people stop having them.
When the tax on an industry is too high, no innovation occurs.
When the tax on men is too high, they lie flat.
All of these choices have consequences imposing real financial costs.
It's almost like there's a moral hazard when creating these taxes or something, where the people imposing them because "it sounds like a good idea, safety is everyone's responsibility" either don't get (or can't be) resisted effectively enough to stop them. And when the full effects of hollowing out the country's labor class take effect, you're either retired (thus insulated from the problems you caused) or dead from old age. Unfortunately, we can't fine the dead and the populace has sovereign immunity when voting.
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