Funny, but taxes ARE cool. Anyone who disagrees is welcome to do the research by living in any number of failed states.
Don't be that guy that goes to dinner with a large group of friends then skips out on the bill.
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Nothing inherently wrong with taxation. The problems are how taxes are determined, how they're collected, and how that money is distributed.
Exactly. Conceptually, taxation isn't left, but the way some governments use those funds absolutely is theft.
Not to mention how angry people are about taxation, but are also completely unaware that conceptually, profit is actually left of your surplus value.
I have one simple trick for people who hate taxation but turn a blind eye to corporate profits. Instead of calling it "tax" call it "government profit" because, apparently, that's all it takes to fool them.
You know you're right because some libertarian is downvoting everything in this thread lol
paved roads/wastewater treatment/food safety/free public education intensifies
"The government is robbing us blind! It's just like before the American Revolution, the winning local/state political candidate isn't the one that I voted for, this is oppression!"
But what have the Romans even done for us?
Anyone who disagrees is welcome to do the research by living in any number of failed states.
Currency is a tool of authoritarian governments to extract labor via the threat of poverty and state sanctioned violence.
Taxes are a means of legitimizing that violence by recharacterizing an extortionary rent as interpersonal debts, and the violence of collections as just compensation
Anyone who disagrees is welcome to live in the fascist police states that impose these rents on their people, then assault and imprison them by the million.
Taxes are not theft. They are contributing to the group that shares resources like water and services like roads. These are not naturally forming, they are planned and maintained by people doing a job who need to be compensated.
The problem with taxes is who is taxed. If only a few hundred families control a majority of the wealth, why are you paying taxes? They need to be taxed back down to the quality of life that we live.
I'm pleased that you can conceptually see this "possibility", for lack of a better word. It speaks of creativity and imagination.
That your conclusion seems locked-in on this possibility as the only solution, is needlessly below your abilities and shows mental rigidity or tunnel vision.
Currency and Taxation CAN and HAVE been weaponized as you described, but so has a carrot. Just because a carrot CAN and HAS been used to stab through someone's eye and pierce their brain, killing them, doesn't mean that this is what carrots are for, or how public policy should treat carrots.
That your conclusion seems locked-in on this possibility as the only solution
I'm mostly just being contrary.
Currency and Taxation CAN and HAVE been weaponized as you described, but so has a carrot.
You're going to have to cite how carrots were weaponized by the state to legitimize violence.
You're going to have to cite how carrots were weaponized by the state to legitimize violence.
Exhibit A - Eat your vegetables.
Capitalism is not cool, taxes are thus not cool.
Directly working to make your local community better is cool. Be the guy who comes over and helps you cook a meal with your other friends which you enjoy together.
Socialism is just the highest tier plan on Taxes+
Yeah, but can I be the guy who supplies industrial amounts of chlorine, alum, sodium hypochlorite, lime, ferric chloride, sodium hydroxide, activated carbon, polyphosphates, hydrogen peroxide, and ozone for disinfection for my local water treatment plant? Can you spare the steel and engineering brother? I'm so thirsty. Do you know anyone who is good at instrumentation and SCADA who wants in on our potluck?
I also have to take a dump. Can I give it to you? After we wash our hands, we can cook a meal together.
Sex work is still work. They deserve dignity and recognition for what they do for the rest of us. In my moments of solitude only Lulu brings warmth to my life. She's awesome. I hope things go well to all you guys who do porn for us ugly people.
Taxes are cool when they work properly. The problem with taxes right now is that we're not really getting much benefit for what we pay and those that have the most are not paying their fair share. Not only that, a large portion of our tax money is going directly to those companies that refuse to pay taxes.
In the U.K. we have this really cool thing known as “in work benefits” where the government tops up your income cause companies pay such shit wages.
Reform, one of the popular right wing parties wants to cut the benefits bill, which will include this and pensions. It’s exciting to find out how much damage that will cause, if they get in.
It's shit posting not slop posting. Fuck AI slop, how difficult is to slap some text on a picture?
Is this AI upscaled?
I hope so
It would explain why it looks like crap
Taxes are fine so long as they are fair and apply to everyone.
Including all businesses, which disproportionately benefit from publicly funded infrastructure.
I was thinking religious organizations and the ultra wealthy, but you're right as businesses would cover those.
Religious organizations are businesses!
And not particularly honest ones...
Like fortune tellers with delusions of grandeur.
We can rescue this slop post. Shut up and post pictures of Sasha Grey
Tax evasion is no grey area!
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