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Arbitrary? Or just things they don't agree with?
by kwhitefoot 4y ago
Arbitrary? Or just things they don't agree with?
- tosc 4y agoArbitrary in the sense of non-essential things that governments spend other people’s money on. The fact that most people don’t agree is why tax is taken by force.
- kwhitefoot 4y agoThat's not what arbitrary means. The fact that someone is spending on something non-essential doesn't make that spending arbitrary. Lipstick is non-essential but that doesn't mean the spending on it is arbitrary. I'm quite confident that a lot of thought goes into pretty much all government spending, even if a proportion is misguided, counter productive, and non-essential.