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Taxes enable defense, law and order and responsible management of resources.
Only bad and corrupt government fails to achieve these collective improvements and only lazy apathetic citizens tolerate corrupt and bad government.
There has never been wealth and security without the taxation to fund the collective management required to achieve this.
Only over entitled spoiled Libertarians delude themselves that things are otherwise.
They are shooting themselves in the foot.
As neoliberal USA declines into tyranny China with its mixed economy leveraging collective and individual interests advances to gain more and more wealth and power.
Why would I work and pay taxes if I can get paid more for doing less?
I earn far more than you and your pathetic subsistence welfare cheques by working my own businesses and paying taxes on the profits I make recognising that it is the environment created by good government that enables me to enjoy wealth and income that is in the top 1% in the world.
Taxes enable defense, law and order and responsible management of resources.
What taxation enables me to do is forcibly seize resources for "defense" as I define it, so long as I win a majority vote. You wouldn't like it if I took a portion of your profits to finance a war against the PRC. But through the magic of "collective management" (threatening to bomb you) I could. That's the reality of taxation. You as an individual mean nothing within this paradigm. There is only "society" and "historical destiny."
I earn far more than you and your pathetic subsistence welfare cheques by working my own businesses and paying taxes on the profits I make recognising that it is the environment created by good government that enables me to enjoy wealth and income that is in the top 1% in the world.
But you don't, because you're working. I get paid without working. You're in the red. I have actual profit, at your expense.
Only bad and corrupt government fails to achieve these collective improvements and only lazy apathetic citizens tolerate corrupt and bad government.
100% of the corruption and mismanagement of resources is coming from the Labor Party and Communists and other such riff raff. We're only hesitating because we like peace and we'd prefer they simply stop with the insane taxes for stupid shit. They're the ones causing problems. A laissez-faire USA would have zero problems.
If you want roads then pay for roads. Why do you have to drag government into everything? You wouldn't like it if I used government against you.
If you are happy living on welfare thats fine by me- you will be living a fairly simple low consumption lifestyle and again that's fine if thats what you want, but for most people including myself I enjoy work and contributing to the community and economy and having more than adequate income to take care of myself and my family.
My income is multiples higher than welfare beneficiaries receive and probably 4-5 times what they get for their subsistence. That give me a hell of a lot more discretionary income and choices in life.
I genuinely think its sad that you don't work and don't want to contribute to your economy and community because well, that's just such a limited and dead end kind of life in my observation people who live such a life miss out on most of what life has to offer.
You may thin you are cleverly playing the system but in fact the vast majority of people would not swap places with you and pity you.
It's not contributing to the economy if the income gets siphoned away paying for attacks on the economy.
I happily pay taxes to keep malcontent malingerers like you off the streets and in your mothers basement under constant surveillance.
Taxation enriches the state and impoverishes the citizenry. Citizens made wealth amongst themselves and the state leeched on it afterwards. You have the order completely backwards. The PRC is no different. Civilians traded amongst themselves and the government ended up tolerating it. All wealth is produced by the private sector. The state can't run the calculations that a free market can. Even in war collective force can't compete with individual voluntary decision-making.
I am demonstrating to you exactly why state redistribution is inefficient. Why is the state making other people pay me for doing nothing? It's your collectivist mindset that created this situation for me to exploit.
Why would I work and pay taxes if I can get paid more for doing less? You can't build up a system like this and then get mad when someone games it by following the letter of the law. I am acting in accordance with the incentive structure that you promote.