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The liberty in that example being raising enough taxes to properly fund our government so people can just go about their lives.
by bcrosby95 2y ago
The liberty in that example being raising enough taxes to properly fund our government so people can just go about their lives.
- llm_trw 2y agoYou can no more riase taxes to properly fund government than you can fill a bucket with no bottom. One only need to look at the Harris campaign to see that the political class in the us is fundamentally innumerate as well as incapable of making a cost benefit analysis.
- ethbr1 2y agoOne only needs look at any administration after 1980. https://www.thebalancemoney.com/us-deficit-by-year-3306306#toc-budget-deficit-by-year-since-1929 https://www.thebalancemoney.com/us-deficit-by-year-3306306#t... The only presidential administration that produced a non-deficit budget was Bill Clinton's second term (~97-00). Probably because Ross Perot mostly self-funded a third party campaign centered around the national debt and had received 8% of the vote (and 19% in the previous election).
- microtonal 2y agoYou are missing the point. Benjamin Franklin's quote is about taxation (well at least some people argue): https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famous-liberty-safety-quote-lost-its-context-in-21st-century https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famou... People quote it in the wrong context.