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lol the state(aka society's strong arm) will always have an immense say in your life even if you are so oblivious to it. Government exists to redistribute money
by rsoto2 2y ago
lol the state(aka society's strong arm) will always have an immense say in your life even if you are so oblivious to it. Government exists to redistribute money, might as well distribute it to the poor and do it universally.
This study didn't say, we gave 1200 to people and then dictated their lives like a dictator.
- isaacremuant 2y ago> Government exists to redistribute money Citation needed. Authoritarians always love to go dismiss anyone who doesn't just take anything they're given.
- unethical_ban 2y agoCitation: All modern society and the last 1000 years. >Governments don't exist to redistribute money Citation needed.
- foobarchu 2y ago>Government exists to redistribute money Citation needed It works both ways.
- isaacremuant 2y agoRead a constitution and tell me where it states that the goal is to redisteibut wealth. I've read significant parts of the constitution of my country and it absolutely does not state that. The goal of the government is not stated as such. It's not "the social contract". But hey, your phrase sounded confident so you have that going for you.
- unethical_ban 2y ago"The authority to collect taxes and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States."
- isaacremuant 2y agoWhich doesn't mean it exists to redistribute wealth. See other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43639059 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43639059
- ryoshoe 2y agoTaxes are a form of wealth redistribution, and all governments require a revenue stream
- isaacremuant 2y agoThat a government levies taxes to sustain its operations, such as the monopoly of violence, does not mean that "it exists to redistribute wealth". The wording was very intentional and very wrong. Specially because it's uses as an argument.