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		<title>Scalzi, John -- &#8220;Tax Frenzies and How to Hose Them Down,&#8221; Whatever blog (26 Sep 2010)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really don&#8217;t know what you do about the &#8220;taxes are theft&#8221; crowd, except possibly enter a gambling pool regarding just how long after their no-tax utopia comes true that their generally white, generally entitled, generally soft and pudgy asses are turned into thin strips of Objectivist Jerky by the sort of pitiless sociopath who [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I really don&#8217;t know what you do about the &#8220;taxes are theft&#8221; crowd, except possibly enter a gambling pool regarding just how long after their no-tax utopia comes true that their generally white, generally entitled, generally soft and pudgy asses are turned into thin strips of Objectivist Jerky by the sort of pitiless sociopath who is actually prepped and ready to live in the world that logically follows these people’s fondest desires. Sorry, guys. I know you all thought you were going to be one of those paying a nickel for your cigarettes in Galt Gulch. That&#8217;ll be a fine last thought for you as the starving remnants of the society of takers closes in with their flensing tools.</p>
<br><b>John Scalzi</b> (b. 1969) American writer<br>&#8220;Tax Frenzies and How to Hose Them Down,&#8221; <i>Whatever</i> blog (26 Sep 2010) 
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