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Did you see the thread here literally yesterday about taxes becoming higher for upper-middle class earners in blue states? Why didn't they get asked why they do
by moduspol 9y ago
Did you see the thread here literally yesterday about taxes becoming higher for upper-middle class earners in blue states? Why didn't they get asked why they don't want roads?
I feel like this comes up any time someone does something to avoid paying taxes, as if that necessarily means they want no government at all. They (the farmers) will see no appreciable difference whether they pay the tax or buy the tractor, so they choose the tractor. That doesn't mean they don't want roads.
- addicted 9y agoBecause upper middle class earners in blue states, and blue states in general, already pay out more in taxes than they get back. Rural areas don’t.
- moduspol 9y agoParent point: Why do farmers see taxes paid as providing no value to them? Don't they want roads? My point: Nobody wants to pay taxes they don't have to, and farmers are no different from upper-middle class blue state residents in that regard. It doesn't mean they literally don't want roads. That blue state residents already pay more in taxes than they get back is irrelevant. Nobody wants to pay more in taxes, and that doesn't mean nobody wants roads.
- aisofteng 9y ago>Nobody wants to pay more in taxes Bullshit. I'm happy to pay more in taxes if it means that the society I'm a part of improves as a consequence. Whether money from a tax increase is well spent is another question, however.