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>raising taxes is unpopular and tends to cause people to get voted out of office. This is missing the point. If you got rid of taxes altogether it would reveal
by charcircuit 2mo ago
>raising taxes is unpopular and tends to cause people to get voted out of office.
This is missing the point. If you got rid of taxes altogether it would reveal what really is being propped up tax money as opposed to actually being valuable enough to exist on its own.
>complixated entity made up of literally millions of people all of whom have different motivations and incentives
Which is why it's important to get the big incentives correct. Otherwise one of these actors will waste resources since expecting people to do the right thing without incentives does not scale.
- wredcoll 2mo ago> This is missing the point. If you got rid of taxes altogether it would reveal what really is being propped up tax money as opposed to actually being valuable enough to exist on its own. No, that's not how reality works. Things do not "exist on their own". People create them. People maintain them. They do this for a very large variety of reasons and via lots of different mechanisms. Some dude buying lemons and selling lemonade as a business is no more special or deserving of existence than a bunch of dudes deciding they should all chip in to pay someone to clean the neighborhood pool. The "right thing" is extremely complicated because people will not agree with each other.