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"send them a cheque for $10,000 and increase their taxes by ~$10,000" which (suprise) just wastes people's time and money.
by jakeogh 11y ago
"send them a cheque for $10,000 and increase their taxes by ~$10,000" which (suprise) just wastes people's time and money.
- bryanlarsen 11y agoReplace "cheque" with "direct deposit" and what time is wasted? You have to do taxes every year anyways. And what little time is wasted is offset by the sense of security that $200/week is going into your bank account every week like clockwork no matter happens to you or your job.
- jakeogh 11y agoI take issue with the idea that government should use violence to take from some people and give to others, the "You have to" (or we throw you on a cage or worse) is the problem. The money and time wasted is the huge infrastructure to enforce the ever growing list of restrictions.
- bryanlarsen 11y agoAnd I take issue with the idea that taxes are theft. Without society, you'd be a subsistence farmer. Any income you earn above that of a subsistence farmer is enabled by society.
- jakeogh 11y agoSociety exists independent of taxes, for example we didnt always have a federal income tax, and there are states without state income tax now. There are other ways gov can raise money.
- harryh 11y agoAll of the ways that the government can raise money involves taking it from people. You're making a distinction without a difference.
- dang 11y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10982450 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10982450 and marked it off-topic.