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The united states government was first started without taxes. It collapsed in about 2 years. From that the current US government was born. Taxes are necessary,
by GrandMasterBirt 17y ago
The united states government was first started without taxes. It collapsed in about 2 years. From that the current US government was born.
Taxes are necessary, unless you want to pay out-of-pocket for schools, the fire department, police, etc. And literally anyone who can't afford hospital treatment gets thrown out of the hospital no questions asked. No insurance? No problem, have a near-death experience which causes you to be in a hospital for 5 days? $80,000, pay up. Want people to go to jail for killing other people? Well I guess you better have enough money to sponsor a court session otherwise the criminal walks free.
Argue against taxes all you want, but I want to see a large society work without taxes.
- philwelch 17y agoTo be fair, once you start arguing against taxes you really have to have a really clever answer to one of the following three questions: * How do we voluntarily fund a government? * How do we have an anarchic civilization? * Are we willing to trade civilization for anarchy? In other words, the type of person who argues that taxation is theft either has to shrug and say it's a necessary evil, have really clever answers to your objections, or be an anarchist. The anarchist will shrug his shoulders and say "we shouldn't have a US government" and the "necessary evil" folks like me will shrug their shoulders and say "you're both right".