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Proudly paying your taxes doesn't mean you don't recognize that the government may not be the most efficient organisation around. It doesn't mean that you agree
by Confusion 10y ago
Proudly paying your taxes doesn't mean you don't recognize that the government may not be the most efficient organisation around. It doesn't mean that you agree with the decisions being made. It only means you agree that something between X and Y% of taxes needs to be paid to operate a country smoothly. And I've delegated the decision of what exactly to spend it on to others, so I accept that I can't always be 100% happy with the choices.
The amount of waste, corruption and poor planning by the gov't [..]
Companies do the exact same thing. How much money is wasted by the next failed IT project? Poor planning, check. Funnelling money to their own pockets and those of their friends? Check.
Governments aren't the most efficient organisations around. But Western governments certainly aren't the worst either.
- lostboys67 10y agoExactly I worked at one company where someone spent 15 Man Years and a million pounds reimplimenting a system in Oracle because it was "company standard". They did this to tick a box for promotion to the next level - not the best use of the share holders money
- refurb 10y agoCompanies do the exact same thing. Yeah, but companies waste their own money. Not mine. Unless I'm a shareholder, I could care less if they flushed cash down the toilet.
- Delmania 10y agoWith tax breaks, subsidies, and grants, they get to throw your money down the crapper as well.
- Confusion 10y agoThey waste your money by charging you higher prices. And their competitors do the same thing. You don't pay the lowest possible price for everything. Free markets are a utopia: they don't actually exist.