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21 sats \ 14 replies \ @BBitcoinUSA 22 Aug 2023 \ parent \ on: Which tax rate do you consider "fair" and would pay? bitcoin
I agree, what you’re describing is basically the practice of tithing at church, I think 10% is what “taxes” would settle at, so long as the threat of violence is eliminated and the people are participating in the system willingly / setting the market for tax rate
Government services are never fair, because they either create unfair competition through subsidies or laws, or are outright monopolies.
Why would the government offer a service funded by voluntary donations when anyone can do that?
It just becomes another company, in which case it doesn't make sense to call it a government, unless it has rights normal companies don't - which brings us to the point of unfairness.
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So ancap is the answer then?
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It's the direction we're inevitably heading in.
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Always has been (Queue meme)
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I was thinking things like the Fire Department, etc., would be nice-to-haves, but I could easily be convinced otherwise
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If they're valuable services then people will pay for them. You know how other service providers come to your house, do their job, and then you pay them? It would be like that.
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Agreed, I’d rather have the option to subscribe to a private fire-fighting service than be automatically enrolled. Taxes are just pure evil any way you look at it
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The important difference is that churches provide a valuable service to the community. Absent the coercion, no one would use government "services".
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True, I’m sure there are some services that I’d like to have provided in my hyper local municipality, can’t really think of any right now, but 10% should be way more than enough
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Would somebody think of the Roads?! :)
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Lmao, gotta save this one 😂
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I’m totally fine with dirt roads
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In the words of the incomparable Eric July "Man, fuck them ho ass roads."
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