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This country was literally founded because of excessive and tyrannical taxes brought by the British empire. How long until America becomes that empire? It's fu
by dgzl 8y ago
This country was literally founded because of excessive and tyrannical taxes brought by the British empire. How long until America becomes that empire?
It's funny, I see this meme sometimes around tax day: "Well, I just paid my taxes. Those roads should be fixed anytime now". It's funny because the excuses people use (my roads!) to justify reckless and out-of-control taxation ($21T debt, that's T for Trillion) are almost never at the head of where the tax revenue is actually spent.
As a US government contractor, governments are great at overspending and under-delivering.
- s73v3r_ 8y ago"This country was literally founded because of excessive and tyrannical taxes brought by the British empire. How long until America becomes that empire?" There were far, far more inputs to that than just "taxes are bad". "As a US government contractor, governments are great at overspending and under-delivering." And as a contractor, you're part of that problem.
- dgzl 8y ago> There were far, far more inputs to that than just "taxes are bad". Very true, and excessive taxation was one of the major factors. > And as a contractor, you're part of that problem. Not myself, but it's a reasonable accusation about the company I work for. Even if that were true, we offer a product that the government could never engineer. The product is good, the government needs it, so they take money from their citizens to buy it. My points still stand unfortunately.