Our founding republican spirit of “No taxation without representation” and “Don’t tread on me” is laudable, but must be directed to the proper offshore entity. Libertarians are confused because, unlike King James I, Verizon doesn’t make a straightforward assertion of sovereignty. Instead, it wraps you up in the embrace of rational-looking bureaucratic irrationality. While in this embrace (“Your call is important to us”), one catches a distinct odor of bad faith and begins to suspect that the irrationality one is battling is not due to a system error, but part of the business plan. Perhaps the
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