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The thing is, you have laws and tax laws and, for how unjust they might seem, a State has to enforce them, full stop.

Well I just don't think that's so.

A tremendous number of technically illegal things are routinely ignored, downplayed, or considered low priorities for enforcement. Everybody goes a little over the speed limit; everybody jaywalks; genteel, expensive drug-dealing and prostitution are common enough; domestic violence and abuse in all its permutations is unpunished more often than not; and so on ad nauseam.

Law enforcement is always selective enforcement. There just aren't enough executive resources to do anything else.



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