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We all have a lot of expectation of our taxes. But one thing you can be sure of - the Government can and does fuck up pretty much everything you hire them to do
by balabaster 9y ago
We all have a lot of expectation of our taxes. But one thing you can be sure of - the Government can and does fuck up pretty much everything you hire them to do. History has proven this time and time again. So at what point do people get off their asses and make things happen instead of just talking about it?
P.S. I work in the software business too.
Additionally: Do you honestly think that given the Government's lack of guarantee to provide you with free healthcare, clean water, even clean air... given many states atrocious track record for this: Look at Flint with the lead in the water, look at Pennsylvania with oil companies fracking and polluting the drinking water meaning you can literally light the water pouring from your kitchen tap on fire. Do you really trust your Government to provide you any kind of regard when they've got lobbyists campaigning left, right and centre for the interests of people who don't give a shit about you and yours, just their shareholder profits?
I think it's naive to expect that the Government will do the right thing, even though as tax payers we should rightfully be able to expect that. They've proven too many times that they won't. The definition of crazy is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. If you want different results, something's gotta change. You have no surer way of doing something different than doing it yourself.
- ingenuous2 9y agoFlint situation is so visible because generally the gov't does a great job at regulating water quality. We are not there on greenhouse gas pollution, but the EPA has done some wonderful work on particulate pollution. Also, remember that the old ozone hole is healing? That was helped by a consortium of governments. "Gov't" can mean so many things. This meme ("the Government can and does fuck up pretty much everything you hire them to do") is inaccurate and heavily influenced by the high profile failures that lead to availability bias.
- devrandomguy 9y agoI suspect that it is also corporate propaganda, to reduce popular support for regulation, and to encourage the privatization of government services.
- balabaster 9y agoPerhaps to most people it would be such, but I personally disagree. I agree with regulation, I agree with socially owned services, I agree with free healthcare for all, I agree that taxes should be spent for the good of the people both in the present and the future. I believe in effective Government. What I don't believe is that to this point the Government has been as effective as the tax payers should be expecting and to which the Government should be held to account.