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The way it's usually set up is that collective funding through taxation ensures that providers of these basic necessities are duly compensated. Unless your not
by quasque 13y ago
The way it's usually set up is that collective funding through taxation ensures that providers of these basic necessities are duly compensated.
Unless your notion of individual rights includes "the right to not pay tax" it's quite a fair way to provide a social safety net.
- 7Figures2Commas 13y agoThere's just one problem: the cost of providing your social safety net can't exceed what you can reasonably/realistically collect in taxes. Tax revenue, when it's growing, grows linearly. Debt, however, grows exponentially. That explains why the total debt burden of the federal government, if you include unfunded liabilities, exceeds $70 trillion even though federal tax receipts last year were above $2.5 trillion.