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When I use those benefits I pay. Internet, I pay for it. Healthcare, I pay for that too. Education, you can be sure I paid for that. Roads, pay the toll, pay ro
by dublinclontarf 16y ago
When I use those benefits I pay. Internet, I pay for it. Healthcare, I pay for that too. Education, you can be sure I paid for that. Roads, pay the toll, pay road tax.Pay petrol tax. Pay tax on the required insurance.
Research? Paid for it when I bough the product that was used to monetise it.
I've been working since I was 15, paying taxes since I was 16. I'm nearly 30 now. I'm not wealthy by any count but you can be damn sure I've paid plenty.
I save my money in the bank I pay tax in the interest, I save money in my pension, I pay tax when I withdraw it. I buy shares I pay tax, sell I pay tax. I even have to sell the shares every few years just so the government can tax me on it in the meantime.
I own a house, I pay tax just for the privalege (I don't own a house by the way, just saying).
I get taxed on the money I make as income, I get taxed on the money I spend as sales tax, I even get taxed on the money I don't spend.
If I give what little I've earned to my kids when I die, a huge whopping chunk of it is taken in tax. If I have a home, and I give it to my kids when I die, they have to sell it to pay for the tax the government has charged.
I'm wondering where other people are paying for me, cause from what I see I'm paying for everything I get and use, and paying tax.
I think, one less way the government can squeeze a little bit more blood out of a person is a good thing.
So you can just go ahead and suck my cock with your collectivist claptrap.
- lutorm 16y agoSo you can just go ahead and suck my cock with your collectivist claptrap. That's real eloquent of you. Yeah, I'm sure you only benefited from services that are directly taxed. How wrong I was... If this is the level of farsightedness in the bitcoin community, I'll know to stay away now, thanks. To remain nominally on-topic: unless you live in a place like Somalia, Afghanistan, or Iraq, I'm pretty sure you are benefiting from living in a country with a stable government and enforceable laws and contracts and all that. I'm also pretty sure you'd like someone to go after those who might all of a sudden take off with your retirement savings (unless you have them in Bitcoin) or that prevents a gang of armed thugs from kicking you out of the home you were planning to give to your kids. Well here's the news, take away your despicable, tax-stealing government and all those things go away. I'm pretty sure that there's a very strong correlation between a government funded by general taxes and the presence of said benefits. Show me one example where there's functioning rule of law without a functioning government. And a government does in fact cost money to run.