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Just like taxes can be used to kill people in foreign countries, it can be used to save people from fire and illness, educate them, etc. When you try to defect
by olau 5y ago
Just like taxes can be used to kill people in foreign countries, it can be used to save people from fire and illness, educate them, etc.
When you try to defect from paying tax, you may have in your mind the people not killed with your money, but others in society will (correctly) recognize the people not saved with your money and wish to punish you. This is basic tit-for-tat group behavior. Tit-for-tat makes it possible to solve the prisoner's dilemma cooperatively.
I don't think the downvotes should necessarily be interpreted as punishment, though, it could also be because people think the above rationale is so obvious that your post has negative value (little information, noisy).
- hirako2000 5y agoI would gladly take the positive aspects, but it isn't obvious to me those are significant, I think they are part of the problem. I'm sorry if the questioning of taxes is noisy information, and I glad you took the time to answer with arguments. I agree there is a group behavior at play there. You mention education, my own education was nearly in full paid by tax payers. I only had to sustain myself during all these education years, and I spent the rest of my life re educating myself, which came at lower cost but greater effort than getting educated by non government funded bodies. Fire and health are different issues, which I'm sure would also be handled better than with public funds taken by force. Informational maybe, but the taxing system we have today wasn't what founded America and made the great country it had become. We can look at specific issues such as turbofax and questionable lobbies, but these are plugged onto a taxing dogma that would need to be discussed more than the intricacies of its implementation. I appreciate your explained view, I can only agree with what you've taken the time to point out.