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Most of the world doesn't have "republicans", we just don't want to pay an ever increasing amount of taxes on everything that will be wasted by corrupt politici
by deworms 5y ago
Most of the world doesn't have "republicans", we just don't want to pay an ever increasing amount of taxes on everything that will be wasted by corrupt politicians. The government can absorb any amount of taxes and very little of it is spent in a way that I approve of. We already have to give over 65% of what we make to the government, I want nothing more than to be left alone.
- Forbo 5y agoSounds like you need better representation in your government.
- Hammershaft 5y agocarbon taxes under most systems are revenue neutral. Here in Canada, most people recieve more back then they payed in, because the highest income brackets emit disproportionately.
- deworms 5y agoAll taxes come with an overhead required to process them. I oppose all such arbitrary wealth redistribution as unjust in principle.
- Hammershaft 5y agoWhen I buy energy produced by coal, and the coal emissions contribute to children contracting asthma, my transaction is creating external costs that I don't pay. These negative externalities are unjust and inefficient. Pigouvian taxes such as a carbon tax work to price in the cost of these negative externalities, thereby changing behavior to reduce that form of injustice. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax