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You tax at a more macro level. The more you localise the tax take, the more you disadvantage people somehow. It works both ways. Saying that HOAs should pay for
by forgotusername6 4y ago
You tax at a more macro level. The more you localise the tax take, the more you disadvantage people somehow. It works both ways. Saying that HOAs should pay for their fancy lawns in rich neighborhoods also means poor people have to foot the bill in their poor neighborhoods. Instead, you tax at a national level and clean all the streets. That way everyone gets the shared benefit and everyone pays proportionally to what they can afford.
- c22 4y agoWhy stop at the national level? Wouldn't it be better to tax globally and clean the streets everywhere?
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoYour sarcastically make a good point - we couls have globally accessible sanitation and basic education for pennies, and lift like a billion people out of poverty.
- c22 4y agoCould we, though? I suspect some residents of the world don't care about clean streets and don't want to pay for them. Some other maladjusted individuals might even prefer dirty streets. It seems like if we could build a global utopia where everyone agrees to the same homogeneous rules and values that we'd have done this already. Also, I think pennies is the wrong unit of currency to use when budgeting for this harmonious future.
- ClumsyPilot 4y ago> Some other maladjusted individuals might even prefer dirty streets. There are mant problems in the world - poverty, corruption, ignorancr, violence. But I have neber heard of, well, whatever this is, love of dirt? I have travelled quite a bit and have never encountered opposition to sanitation, running water and toilets.
- c22 4y agoI've worked janitorial jobs and building maintenance and I can assure you there are people whose actions bely their appreciation of these amenities.