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Money loser for the government, money gain for society. Money spent on bureaucracy is money not spent towards more productive ends.
by wyager 9y ago
Money loser for the government, money gain for society. Money spent on bureaucracy is money not spent towards more productive ends.
- emodendroket 9y agoTaxes evaded mean programs not funded.
- mfringel 9y agoPlease explain how society is completely disjoint from government, such that a zero-sum assertion is possible.
- wyager 9y agoIf the money were spend by market forces rather than government dictate, the funds that go to hire IRS bureaucrats would instead go towards more productive ends, like the production of food or snowmobiles. In other words, instead of wasting human productive capacity on bureaucracy, the people currently employed by the IRS would instead have to find jobs useful to society. It's not zero-sum at all. The amount of money is zero-sum (obviously), but net social utility isn't zero-sum. That's the point.