• the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    I like paying taxes

    I don’t. Every time a child is burned alive, every time hundreds are made homeless by a drone strike, every time a book is banned, every time an innocent is murdered by police, I’m part of that, I funded that. I hate it.

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        6 months ago

        Yup. Like with most things related to governing, it’s necessary, but exploitable. It needs regulation, but the bigger it gets, the harder it is to regulate, but if we made it smaller, it wouldn’t be effective enough.

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      Every time a child is burned alive, every time hundreds are made homeless by a drone strike, every time a book is banned, every time an innocent is murdered by police, I’m part of that, I funded that. I hate it.

      With zero taxes modern society would fall and the outcomes don’t change for the better either.

      • lawlessness would rule the land
      • industrial capacity to produce books wouldn’t exist, so bookbinding would revert to artisan level so there likely wouldn’t be a book to ban because there wouldn’t be enough of them to ban.
      • “police” would be paid/fed by the local strongman that would happily kill you for whatever arbitrary reason he or bossman wanted.
      • homelessness would be so shockingly common it would be the norm and not the exception

      All of the problems you listed would be minuscule compared to finding something to eat or a dry place to lay your head to sleep where you would be safe.

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        6 months ago

        It’s not like I get to choose what is spent on, and yeah a shitload of it goes towards child murder. More of my money is spent hurting people than helping them.

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          If it makes you feel better, that’s not true. More discretionary spending is on “defense.” But roughly 2/3 of the full budget is mandatory spending which largely is social security, Medicare, medicaid, TANF, and SNAP and also includes education and transportation as smaller pieces.