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Most tax dollars in most countries are not spent on goods and services for the benefit of the people who paid them.
by kolbe 8y ago
Most tax dollars in most countries are not spent on goods and services for the benefit of the people who paid them.
- pickdenis 8y agoBut there's at least a pretense that it (goods purchased with tax money) will be, right? Forget about what actually happens for a moment and consider that the tax-collecting colonists didn't even seem to bother with such a pretense. The way I understand it, they just bought the goods, turned around, and sold them again (which does not align with any notion of "providing government"). Of course, I know very little about economics or history, but I just wanted to point out what I thought was a logical inconsistency in the root comment.
- kolbe 8y agoI disagree. The pretense makes it worse. I think there's something far more comforting about the honesty of a government just stealing my money and owning up to it. Don't waste time and distort my perception of the world with that bullshit.
- gumby 8y agoI doubt that's actually true, especially in the 21st century.