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“I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

• vivekd 4y ago
  So I guess the answer is it depends what are the tax revenue is being spent on - are they being spent on building or mantaining civilization or on other things (like enriching friends lobbyists and funders, mantaining a particular political party's power etc.). I think the answer in all major nations is that it's being spent on a mixture of both. That taxation is sometimes theft and and other times not. I think this article becomes a simplistic propoganda piece because it asks a simplistic question and does a simplistic analysis. And it thereby misses and obscures the deeper debate going on.
  • nabla9 4y ago
    The efficiency of the use of taxes does not change the argument enough.