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Yes, because every problem is easily solved if we only taxed everyone and everything into oblivion. Couldn't have anything to do with the government taking and
by dpeterson 10y ago
Yes, because every problem is easily solved if we only taxed everyone and everything into oblivion. Couldn't have anything to do with the government taking and printing endless streams of cash, wasting it to buy votes, then using their monopoly of force to prevent competition when they hand over the bungled job to private firms.
- ChrisLTD 10y agoThere is a middle ground between inadequate taxes and taxing into "oblivion".
- briandear 10y agoExactly. The Laffer Curve is very good at demonstrating this.
- ubernostrum 10y agoOn the local level -- which is where these monopolies are handed out -- it's actually been decades of "cut taxes, then cut taxes, then if it's not working cut taxes, and if you still have budget problems try a tax cut or ten, then cut taxes some more, then try a tax cut, and if you don't have any other ideas, maybe a tax cut will help". Which has predictably resulted in basic services being cut and things that even the hardest ultra-hardcore libertarian wants government to do -- like providing police and courts to enforce contracts and property rights -- having to resort to overpolicing in order to collect money from citations, since that's the only revenue stream the "10 CUT TAXES; 20 GOTO 10" mentality will allow.