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What drove her to this worldview? I happen to have a friend who has a husband (well, not legally for soon to be obvious reasons) who has a very similar worldview to this.

He doesn't pay taxes. Says he'll pay if he gets pursued by the IRS because it'll be too difficult to fight - but also refuses to participate in fiat currency. (Big on crypto - has the wife do all the fiat handling) Doesn't believe in taxation for the most part. Similar arguments about violence. I didn't really get deep into it - the wife was already pretty out there for a while. (They're both really nice and good people btw - they just have this unusual commitment to their worldview) Interestingly, I think he went even deeper on the views and she decided to reel it back a bit for herself. Suddenly she's not as hyper-capitalist anymore...

It's one of those views that makes ya wonder how you get there and how you decide to go that deep. Admittedly, he's fiendishly rich now thanks to crypto so he can live the fantasy a little bit but it is something that I cannot see someone doing if they weren't rich already.

>>bradly+(OP)
I was not rich when I started believing this. My pipeline was Ron Paul then I read everything I could on Mises.org website, a lot of with were the writings of Murray Rothbard. But I listen to a lot of audiobooks from all kinds of authors about philosophy and politics. I do pay taxes, though, out of fear.

>>Wincys+m
Interesting. I got somewhat into Ron Paul in the lead up to the 2008 election - just ended up not really liking his social views and couldn't reconcile them with my views. I think I ended up liking Gravel more, really. I guess I'm more of a rock in a pond type person.

Sometimes I see them and others and think, "coulda been me". Just didn't click on the right links, I guess. :)