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Your taxes also help pay for the education of millions of children, among other things, so there’s that. More to the point, your objection has some merit- but
by maxander 9y ago
Your taxes also help pay for the education of millions of children, among other things, so there’s that.
More to the point, your objection has some merit- but if you (or anyone else reading this) feels that way, are you protesting or otherwise politically agitating against war, or are you just sitting around feeling abstractly ashamed?
- jMyles 9y agoFor me, prisons are a more front-and-center topic of activism. I've been involved with SSDP for over a decade. My only real anti-war activism (since the protests around the 2003 war) has been donating to Doctors Without Borders. But that wasn't quite the point I was making. All I'm saying is that there's no reason to be proud per se of paying taxes. And while I wish that education were better funded (and National Parks, and NPR), I don't think that it's reasonable to suppose that, so long as we make the mistake of delegating those things to the state, that it won't use our money mostly for misery and death.