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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @godlikeXi 2 Feb \ on: Naive, but how the fuck did we end up with so many taxes? econ
Services. You like services right? Roads? Bridges? Infrastructure? Military? You want any sense of safety of water and food?
Someone needs to pay for that.
I mean... there's always Somalia. I mean it run by Warlords. You too can be a Warlord if you have enough cash and weapons... go far it.
I'm good here in stupid fucking America. :)
Someone needs to pay for that.
Of course, "someone" does need to pay for it, we are deciding WHO pays for it:
Can you explain why people who don't consume these services directly should pay for it (taxes) instead of why people who do consume these services directly should pay for it (free market)?
Why should I pay for a bridge I'll never drive on? Why should I pay for a school I'll never go to? Why should I pay for a military to invade a foreign country that I know is innocent?
Taxation enables not only massive economic waste, but unaccountable bloodshed.
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The only answer is voluntarism.
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this is just an extreme end of the spectrum, what I'm saying is why the extreme overreach in taxation.
how are things like capital gains and inheritance fair in any way? you like tax, great, well you already paid it and then get taxed AGAIN. then they steal from your children.
France is trying to get a tax on unrealized capital gains, Holland already tried it. how about that? they get enough tax for the roads as it is.
just saying they can tax everything to infinity because 'who will build the roads' isn't really a solution
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Taxes work because you can always get the other guy to pay for what you are getting. It doesn’t matter what, just as long as it is free to you and someone else pays. It is called envy and is the source of all progressive/lefty/Marxist/socialist/communist/murderers power and incentive to action. Time to wake up and die right.
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