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Yeah it’s inefficient, but that “deadweight loss” gives you the common infrastructure required for a modern society (roads, police, fire, et al)
by tagami 5y ago
Yeah it’s inefficient, but that “deadweight loss” gives you the common infrastructure required for a modern society (roads, police, fire, et al)
- tengbretson 5y agoIn the US nearly all of your examples of what we get in return are funded by sales and property taxes
- HideousKojima 5y agoSpecifically, roughly 70% of the federal budget is spent on the military, social security, medicare, and medicaid.
- stuxnet 5y agoNot to mention a gigantic military budget including all the alphabet agencies... all funded by that inefficiency.
- f7ebc20c97 5y agoPerhaps there is a way to pay for these things besides taxes? Unthinkable!