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imagine how much money the government could save by just continuing to collect taxes and not providing any services! we could privatize everything!
by sidewndr46 1y ago
imagine how much money the government could save by just continuing to collect taxes and not providing any services! we could privatize everything!
- red_rech 1y agoYes! we can even distribute political and military power to selected individuals who can rule over small portions maintaining security and collecting taxes. After all, it was divine right (Darwinian evolution, AI schizobabble, etc) that made them men of might.
- potato3732842 1y ago>Yes! we can even distribute political and military power to selected individuals who can rule over small portions maintaining security and collecting taxes. That's basically what states and municipalities are.
- mschuster91 1y agoThat's ... decently close to what the current political course of action is, a strategy called "starve the beast" [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
- sidewndr46 1y agoThe very first sentence in that sayes "cutting taxes". I'm explicitly proposing that taxes be maintained or raised while reducing or eliminating government services.
- supertrope 1y agoThat's running the government like a business!