Funny, but taxes ARE cool. Anyone who disagrees is welcome to do the research by living in any number of failed states.
Don't be that guy that goes to dinner with a large group of friends then skips out on the bill.
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"The government is robbing us blind! It's just like before the American Revolution, the winning local/state political candidate isn't the one that I voted for, this is oppression!"
Nothing inherently wrong with taxation. The problems are how taxes are determined, how they're collected, and how that money is distributed.
Exactly. Conceptually, taxation isn't left, but the way some governments use those funds absolutely is theft.
Not to mention how angry people are about taxation, but are also completely unaware that conceptually, profit is actually left of your surplus value.
Modern governments with their own Fiat currencies don't use taxes to pay for anything. The money doesn't get distributed, it gets destroyed to control inflation.
Not how that works. Not how any of that works.
Capitalism is not cool, taxes are thus not cool.
Directly working to make your local community better is cool. Be the guy who comes over and helps you cook a meal with your other friends which you enjoy together.
I'd rather live in a world without government or currency. Taxes suck, but only insofar as it legitimizes and enables the monopoly of violence
Have fun in Mad Max might makes right land.
Shut up nerd
Anyone who disagrees is welcome to do the research by living in any number of failed states.
Currency is a tool of authoritarian governments to extract labor via the threat of poverty and state sanctioned violence.
Taxes are a means of legitimizing that violence by recharacterizing an extortionary rent as interpersonal debts, and the violence of collections as just compensation
Anyone who disagrees is welcome to live in the fascist police states that impose these rents on their people, then assaulting and imprisoning them by the million.
Taxes are not theft. They are contributing to the group that shares resources like water and services like roads. These are not naturally forming, they are planned and maintained by people doing a job who need to be compensated.
The problem with taxes is who is taxed. If only a few hundred families control a majority of the wealth, why are you paying taxes? They need to be taxed back down to the quality of life that we live.
I like it when daddy america dominates me by forcing me to pay taxes like the dirty little slut I am.
I'm pleased that you can conceptually see this "possibility", for lack of a better word. It speaks of creativity and imagination.
That your conclusion seems locked-in on this possibility as the only solution, is needlessly below your abilities and shows mental rigidity or tunnel vision.
Currency and Taxation CAN and HAVE been weaponized as you described, but so has a carrot. Just because a carrot CAN and HAS been used to stab through someone's eye and pierce their brain, killing them, doesn't mean that this is what carrots are for, or how public policy should treat carrots.
That your conclusion seems locked-in on this possibility as the only solution
I'm mostly just being contrary.
Currency and Taxation CAN and HAVE been weaponized as you described, but so has a carrot.
You're going to have to cite how carrots were weaponized by the state to legitimize violence.
You're going to have to cite how carrots were weaponized by the state to legitimize violence.
Wow. Damn. I guess facts don't care about my feelings.
Taxes are fine so long as they are fair and apply to everyone.
Including all businesses, which disproportionately benefit from publicly funded infrastructure.
Is this AI upscaled?
I hope so
This HAS to be old school meme, surely
I duno if most of the youths today would recognise her
The Unc's do
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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Uncles