• jj4211@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The rich person is more likely to require more police services. The rich person is pretty much the only sort of person that’s ever going to have the FBI seriously in their corner. That rich person is more likely to care deeply about the interstate system and the FAA. If a foreign military is coming, the rich are the people that would most desperately want the defense. The rich have the government acting on their best interests in meddling in world affairs and negotiating trade.

    Though you probably think welfare is what most taxes go toward, but that’s actually a relatively small piece of the tax funded pie.