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What is a sufficient tax level to maintain security, external / internal threats, and basic dispute resolution. Basically a military so that you don’t immediat
by treeman79 5y ago
What is a sufficient tax level to maintain security, external / internal threats, and basic dispute resolution.
Basically a military so that you don’t immediately get taken over by another country. A solid alliance may be a substitute for this.
A police force so everything doesn’t get burned to the ground each night.
Some sort of court / judge/magistrate to decide on disputes.
If you have those you have a stable county. Maybe brutal, maybe not. But a country.
Everything else is a nice to have (hopefully)
Tax rate can be 1-100% percent. At 100% everyone is essentially a slave. Revolution / collapse will happen quickly.
America is around 50% or so.
So the question is, what rate is “enough” to cover needs + reasonable wants.
- stale2002 5y ago> What is a sufficient tax level to maintain security, external / internal threats I don't think you read my post. I was saying that taxes are a cost, that are used to pay for things. They are not a benefit in and of themselves. The services are the benefit. And the taxes are the costs needed to pay for that benefit. But they are still a cost.