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In your free country, am I free to not pay for all your good ideas? What happens to me if I refuse to contribute to your ideas?
by shaftoe 6y ago
In your free country, am I free to not pay for all your good ideas? What happens to me if I refuse to contribute to your ideas?
- ChuckNorris89 6y ago>am I free to not pay for all your good ideas Depends where you live. In most European countries, as long as you are a resident with a legal address, past a certain amount of time lived here, you're expected to contribute a certain proportion of your earnings as taxes to fund all public and social services.
- dgellow 6y agoYou can try to push your own idea through a political party, or create a new one. Or you protest in the street to express your position and try to attract others. By definition a democratic system isn’t stable, rules you don’t like can be changed and can evolve, but given the number of “stakeholders” (citizens) that takes a while to reach decisions.
- boomlinde 6y agoIf you want to maximize autonomy in the sense you're hinting at, I suggest looking into Liberland, a currently undeveloped piece of swampland that will no doubt be a prospering night-watchman city-state one day. It's a project that's already completely unencumbered by good ideas. It could perhaps be offered as an emigration option to people who are opposed to paying into a system that everyone will benefit from.