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But now YOU are deciding that “if a sale is involved, speech can be restricted.”

Why can I not decide “if it would result in people dying, speech can be restricted?”

I mean, if you told me I could only restrict one of these, then surely I would pick the second anyways.




No, I’m saying that if you decide to make a sale, and decide to have it mediated by the government by paying sales tax, then whether or not you get punished for false advertising has nothing to do with freedom of speech. Whether such taxes are voluntary in the first place is a different argument, but I think they should be. So there’s no inconsistency on my side.




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