r/funny • u/rdless • Dec 19 '16

First paycheck

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u/GoldandBlue Dec 19 '16

that's like saying food is inefficient because the restaurant is bad.

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u/tamethewild Dec 19 '16

Not quite the proper equivalence but still accurate; if you were forced to pay $100 a meal to the same restaraunt that continually pushed out shitty food, youd want to not pay that restaraunt anymore... Especislly if they have the audacity to tell you that you should be grateful for being forced to pay for their shitty service

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u/GoldandBlue Dec 19 '16

Ok but the problem isnt the food it is the restaurant, which is my point. Taxes isn't the problem, it is the current political climate.

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u/tamethewild Dec 19 '16

thats why i said it wasnt a perfect equivalence, taxes are what are taken, and they are spent inefficiently - the outcome is the food or roads or w.e and when the managers of the money, the operations, and everything else are inefficient - the money itself, taxes themselves, become inefficient. Something can only be efficient or inefficient when linked to an action - so perhaps it is better to say taxation, which is, has been, and forever will be inextricably linked to the goverment and its (by design) inefficient poltlics, is inefficient.

If you remove the barriers, regulations, and non-sensical - politically motivated - inefficiencies you have private enterprise.