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Every business requires public resources to maintain. The police, to guard their warehouses? The trained fire department, to reduce their insurance rates to something manageable? The roads and water and power infrastructure? They didn't build that. The amount of taxes they paid didn't fund even a hundredth of what that cost.

So why should my taxes go to help fund their bigotry?

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And they might ask, why should their taxes go to fund your social engineering projects and restrict their freedoms?

Because their freedoms don't extend to harming others, and never have.

This is the ultimate "two wrongs make a right" argument.

Seems more like "two rights make a right" - companies benefit from public institutions and in return companies do not discriminate. Both of these things are beneficial to everyone. Only in libertarian ideology are either of these things considered as wronging people, and only for ideological reasons that have no foundation in the real world (nebulous appeals to abstract principles).

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