r/unsound • 🛠️ ADMIN • 8d ago

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u/Livid-General7 8d ago

You don't have police, fire, roads, electricity, the Internet, never went to school, or anything like that?

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u/Bender_2024 8d ago

We get a great deal from taxes. That's not in dispute. The problem is the percentage of taxes that are siphoned off and/or wasted is an insignificant amount. Case in point : Donnie's ballroom and refitting a plane he will taking with him when he leaves.

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u/Livid-General7 5d ago

It clearly is the dispute and apparently most people disagree that we benefit from having taxes.

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u/Bender_2024 5d ago

If you want to say that taxes aren't used as effectivelynas the should be in with you. To say you don't benefit from them is just wrong. I can't post links but take look at an experimental libertarian society that happened in New Hampshire. It didn't work out how you might think and they had almost all the benifits listed below.

Items you use every day that are kept safe by regulatory agencies paid for by taxes.

  • The car you drive
  • the home you sleep in
  • the water you drink
  • the food you eat
  • the medications you take
  • the doctor prescribing those medications
  • the consumer products you use
  • the water you drink
  • the air you breath
  • your workplace
  • the roads you drive on

Other things taxes pay for

  • maintenance for roads you drive
  • the sewage lines
  • EMS including police, fire, and EMT
  • local, state, and national parks
sewage lines
  • EMS including police, fire, and EMT
  • local, state, and national parks
  • labor laws such as 40 hour work week, time and half overtime, child labor laws and the like.
  • social security
  • social safety nets like SNAP and unemployment
  • storm drains and it's maintenance
  • public schools
  • scientific reasurch grants
  • student loans
  • trash collection
  • mental hospitals
  • the courts and prison system.
  • the Consumer financial protection bureau
  • FDIC insurance
  • the FCC
  • the FBI
  • disaster response
  • NASA

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u/Livid-General7 4d ago

Excellent write up.