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The idea of paying taxes to help support the people around them truly drives some people nuts. It’s a shame.
by chasing 5y ago
The idea of paying taxes to help support the people around them truly drives some people nuts. It’s a shame.
- rsj_hn 5y agoThe idea that a solution might not require an increase in taxes truly drives people nuts. It's a shame because it explains why the US government spends so much more on education and healthcare than other nations, yet we have such terrible outcomes. But when the only button you are willing to consider is "spend more!", then that's what you end up with -- a broken, bloated, system that is massively overfunded and that massively under-delivers. I bet you're the type of person that sees a massive, broken software project and just declares "we need to spend more on this to deliver it ontime! Hire more people!" But hey, maybe I'm wrong. 20% of the nation is employed in delivering healthcare, so if we increase that to 40%, maybe then we'll solve the problem. We must spend more, it's the moral thing to do! We spend triple the OECD on tertiary education, but hey, we really should bump that up to 6x and then we'll finally fix it!