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circular, ace. you insist on operating entirely within the framework for thinking about taxation and economic activity that neoliberalism makes avaialble for you to use. so one way of looking at this thread is that you are trying to see if other ways of thinking about economic activity, other ways of considering the relations of the state to system activity, can be assimilated into the single perspective that you bring to the table.
in my view, the problem is that perspective itself.
you cant just swat that away by saying "theoretical discussions can be confusing" because if you want a dialogue, it is necessarily a theoretical one--and the claim that you own perspective prevents you from seeing anything not already processed in its own terms, is also a theoretical claim.
the irony is that neoliberalism is entirely theoretical, it is most coherent when it is not applied, when it sits on paper, when its reference points are not damage done in the world, but older theoretical models of capitalist political economy.
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