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Out of your points, only the first (trademark litigation) is handled at the federal level, and extremely inefficiently at that. Roads and police are (mostly, w
by umanwizard 8y ago
Out of your points, only the first (trademark litigation) is handled at the federal level, and extremely inefficiently at that.
Roads and police are (mostly, with some exceptions) controlled by the states.
- komali2 8y agoWhich are governments, which levy taxes...
- umanwizard 8y agoThe thread is about how much federal income tax Amazon paid.
- komali2 8y agoI don't follow. The state exists only as an aspect of the federal government. If the federal government didn't exist, the state would just have its own taxes to fund the education system, judicial system, military, etc.
- umanwizard 8y agoYes that's true, but there is no a priori reason to assume that they would be as outrageously wasteful and inefficient as the US federal government, which: (1) spends about as much per capita on healthcare as other OECD countries, with dramatically worse coverage, (2) spends about 10x the world average on military, per capita, (3) has a political system that is set up to make meaningful reform almost impossible, and so on...