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bucolic_frolic

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1. "government has no need to feed the poor"
Sat Nov 8, 2025, 12:31 PM
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The poor to the extent they are able, will find alternatives. Production for household use where they can. Quite by accident this year I had a zucchini vine growing in my lawn. I have no idea where it came from. It was a late plant, maybe around June 1. Well, it wasn't a zucchini, it turned out to be a pumpkin, and the plant is now frost-bitten, the pumpkin is orange/green, a bit larger than a softball. But, it's edible!

My lawn next year will sprout many vegetable plants, zucchini, squash, pumpkin, cucumbers. They can't tax them. Yet. Czarist Russia taxed the peasants output, I think. we'll probably head toward that system.

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