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Hating the IRS because of taxes is like hating the water because the restaurant is out of your favorite wine. The fact that Congress wrote the tax code to make it impossible for anyone with serious money to pay taxes and limited the IRS's funding so they could not afford lengthy cases against well off tax cheats, making the poorest county in Mississippi also the most audited, is quite evil, but the IRS is not to blame.

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Its funny actually in that section of Smith the IRS is basically his nightmare tax system in terms of needlessly antagonizing the public out of all proportion to the amount of revenue generated.

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Interesting article, enjoyed it. I wish the new President Faye the best of luck. Seems like Senegal has bright future. I am encouraged that you don't think the US will try to stick its nose in to Senegal's afairs. Do you think Biden's Obama trip had any influence or would the people's will have garnered the same result. Personally I'd like to see Russia develop a relationship with Senegal. BTW I am an American.

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I mean they already kind of did stick their nose in their affairs by having Obama call Macky Sall.

The main video going around that claims it is Faye talking about France is fake and is Ousmane Sonko anyway, which goes to show how little the "anti-imperialists" care about getting anything right on Africa.

It is less that no one will mess with their affairs and more that this is actually an amenable outcome compared to the alternative which would have likely caused the dissension to continue.

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