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I will never feel good (let alone pride) paying taxes until: * I don't pay an exorbitant amount of my monthly income to health insurance, mostly due to governm
by malvosenior 8y ago
I will never feel good (let alone pride) paying taxes until:
* I don't pay an exorbitant amount of my monthly income to health insurance, mostly due to government meddling in that industry.
* Billions of dollars of weapons aren't deployed in theaters I don't want to fund wars in.
* I see some sort of efficiency or really, non-corruption at the local and state level with the money I'm paying.
Until then, I will continue to feel exploited and that my money would be of better use in the private sector.
- bhawks 8y agoWith the ways the government (local->state->federal) spend money and manage budgets funding them (thru debt+taxes) at the absolute minimum is the only moral option. Rationale being: * Military industrial complex and associated adventurism * Broken criminal Justice system, prison industrial complex and civil asset forfeitures. * Drug war * Chronic pension mismanagement in nearly all states and localities. Could go on and on ...
- mindslight 8y agoDon't forget the outright citizen-hostile domestic programs - NSA, DEA, CIA, DHS, TSA, etc. They're not an overwhelming portion of the budget, but taxes are the source of energy that they live on. Very few would directly pay to be surveilled and terrorized, but through the magic of the principle-agent problem the parasites persist. (Having said that, I doubt the motives of large scale tax avoiders are so noble - in fact I would guess that they'd be more likely to support said programs)