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It's really hard for me to comprehend how people imagine that this is a reasonable attitude to have. It strikes me as willfully ignorant, entitled, and delusio
by eutropia 7y ago
It's really hard for me to comprehend how people imagine that this is a reasonable attitude to have. It strikes me as willfully ignorant, entitled, and delusional.
People who have this stance typically seem to understand "business transactions", i.e. two parties exchanging something that the other values, so I guess I'll try to keep it simple:
If you exist in a country with internet to post a comment on HN, you have taken something of value from the government of that country, and it's fair and reasonable to compensate them for that value by paying taxes. The cost of those services is never 0, and so the tax should never be 0.
- ethanwillis 7y agoThis is a really bad analogy. It's not that the debate is "the tax should be 0" it's "how high should the tax go" So what's the ceiling?
- davidivadavid 7y agoPeople who have this stance typically understand something called voluntary exchange. The whole point of this stance is that you don't have a choice not to pay taxes and not use government services. I don't have a dog in this debate, but it seems like people would gain from at least having a cursory understanding of the basic arguments and counter-arguments so they don't repeat the same fallacies over and over. This is a decent source: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/22/repost-the-non-libertarian-faq/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/22/repost-the-non-liberta...