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 The latest in economic ingenuity from Canadistan https://image.nostr.build/b8cbb4e2fcf3f132b30f7adde805e461354a285668fd4980610548dd33e9e278.jpg  
 Might as well start price controls while they’re at it. 
 Same as it ever was. 

"Now there's no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw" 
 "Let's give the guys stealing all our money, their money. Then maybe we'll get some money?"

The state isn't short of cash, it's absolutely terrible with it.  
 "In his 1936 article "Isaiah's Job",[4] which appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Nock expressed his complete disillusionment with the idea of reforming the current system. Believing that it would be impossible to convince any large portion of the general population of the correct course and opposing any suggestion of a violent revolution, Nock instead argued that they should focus on nurturing what he called "the Remnant". The Remnant, according to Nock, consisted of a small minority who understood the nature of the state and society, and who would become influential only after the current dangerous course had become thoroughly and obviously untenable, a situation which might not occur until far into the future." 
 Holy shit that’s great - just printed the article