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I could send my whole life savings / net worth off to some organization that is addressing climate change and it won't make a drop in the bucket and nothing wil
by lamontcg 5y ago
I could send my whole life savings / net worth off to some organization that is addressing climate change and it won't make a drop in the bucket and nothing will change.
- WalterBright 5y agoIf all the people that voted for it did, then it would make quite a big difference. After all, where does the government money come from?
- lamontcg 5y agoThat is why taxation is coercive to force people to cooperate, and to provide guarantees that other people are cooperating in addition to you and to spread the load out. If you don't do that, the prisoners dilemma is so out of adjustment that everyone would start to defect and it would unwind. That isn't really a moral observation, but its the nature of the game being so out of whack where it is you vs. 330,000,000 other people. Cooperating or not cooperating can have a large effect on your own finances while each single individuals contribution is miniscule (3e-9). But this is already happening and why we need higher taxes on the 1% and .1%.