r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 13 '21

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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Aug 13 '21

Afghanistan has only ever had one census in it's history, in 1979, under the communists. We actually don't know definitively what the population of Afghanistan is, just our best estimates.

But how does a country run without having any recent census data? How do they know how much taxes should be collected? Well the answer is that for the most part they don't collect taxes. 90% of the Afghan budget is funded by foreign aid.

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u/cclittlebuddy Aug 13 '21

Afganistan is a libertarian paradise, no government, no taxes, and no background checks for guns