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Originally Posted by jcwang
So you meant that we are actually living in 50 countries, we can choose any country we like depending on our needs. When it comes to presidential election, we stick together to vote the person we hate the most. And of course after federal government's tax we have to pay state's tax too. On top of income taxes we have to pay additional taxes like: property tax, school independent tax, gas tax, sales tax, driver license tax, social security tax, airport tax, harbor tax, tollway tax... and many other taxes and fees.
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Well yeah it is 50 ceperate countries. We are a union, combined at of mutual interest. Our union is a model for what a democratic world government should be like, not a solitary unified power that controls everything.
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'May no obstacles arise on the path of enlightenment!
May the enlightened intention of Those Gone to Bliss, past, present and future, be realised,
May I neither be bewildered in migratory existence
Nor I lulled by the solitary quiescence [of nirvana]!
But may I liberate beings throughout the expanse of space!'
- Tibetan Book of the Dead by Padmasambhava
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