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>.e. If you asked people to voluntarily sign up for taxes, "who in their right mind would" do so? Those who would naturally cooperate in the prisoner dilema, t
by dudeman13 5y ago
>.e. If you asked people to voluntarily sign up for taxes, "who in their right mind would" do so?
Those who would naturally cooperate in the prisoner dilema, those who believe society is better by having a government instead of going full anarchy, those who think humanity is better off if the strong protects the weak.
So only the tiny subset of people who care about people instead of those who adhere to the "fuck you, I got mine" point of view.
- zo1 5y agoI really didn't want to get into this, I just wanted to point out how we've already "breached" that whole "if you make this optional will people choose it" line. You're now attaching a moral argument about how only the "fuck you, I got mine" people will say no to taxes. And as a side note: I, as a libertarian/an-cap, would be perfectly fine with paying for all manner of things (with taxes) if I could choose how it was spent to some nominal degree. Here we are in a discussion about government surveillance, which would probably be a non-issue if we all just had the ability to slide that slider next to the "NSA Contribution" heading in our tax-contribution forms.