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> If you believe the government is more effective than the people in spending your money you should want tax increased for everyone. If not you should want it l
by etrautmann 3y ago
> If you believe the government is more effective than the people in spending your money you should want tax increased for everyone. If not you should want it lowered. Simple as that.
This is apples and oranges. I'm not going to go build roads or missile defense systems with my money (thought I might donate to science). There's no direct comparison between how "the people" spend their own money vs. what you can do with taxes, and it's definitely not "as simple as that"
- endisneigh 3y agoYes it is. Money is a resource allocation mechanism. Suppose people were not taxed at all. Do you think there wouldn’t be roads? Roads are a good example of how when you go to 0 to 1 it’s a great investment and thus good justification for taxes. At some point though there are diminishing returns.
- sershe 3y agoPrivate companies managed to build railways just fine, until the govt in its infinite wisdom (with which I totally agree by the way, but most people in the pro-govt camp, who want more rail now, don't) decided to undercut them with a massive tax-funded highway system. And roads (or defense) are about as an extreme example as it gets due to the complexity of acquiring a very long, very narrow plot of land. So, it's possible a govt might be a bit better than market at providing roads, although I'm not 100% convinced. For most things, govt is just an inefficient, thieving monopoly.