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40 sats \ 6 replies \ @SpaceHodler 22 Aug 2023 \ parent \ on: Which tax rate do you consider "fair" and would pay? bitcoin
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.
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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