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Far too often, broad generalizations are made about hot button issues like taxes and regulation, calling them "bad" or "good" but it depends on implementation i.e. what is getting taxed, by how much, and where it goes. It would be nice if we had more say in where our taxes go, but unfortunately in the US, both parties are happy to jack up the military budget.
Strangely enough, it was an american economist that coined:
"Taxes are the price we pay for civilization." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The problem here is that no one knows what the government does because government agencies, with one exception, aren't allowed to toot their own horn. That one government agency is NASA and everyone loves them
If you're interested you can read the book The Fifth Risk. The government isn't perfect but it does so much being the scenes that people just don't appreciate
NASA delivers. I guess USPS delivers too.
I'm not getting the symbolism in relation to the post but this gif is great regardless.
The US brings in 78% of what it spends. Period. So our taxes don't pay for what we get.
In fact, income tax is only a little more than 1/2 of the revenue.
So whatever. Lets stop pretending we have to be fiscally responsible in the US. We haven't passed a budget since 2008. It's just spending bills and continuing resolutions.
Give us healthcare. Don't bark about having the money. Just do it.
Image Transcription: Twitter Post
Stu Cameron, @stucam7771
Nobody 'likes' paying tax, but at least here in Scotland we get to use the hospitals, universities, infastructure, prescription drugs and more (that are tax funded) at no extra cost
I feel sorry for Americans, who also pay tax but without these benefits
Nice military though...
Is there some irony in the fact that the 13 colonies decided to rebel because they didn't want it pay tax back to England for services that they wouldn't get to see the benefits of and so started the American Revolution only to fast forward to now and have more or less the same thing happening?
I mean it's probably a bit more complicated than that but it seems like it's happening that way.
That is the risk with taxes. You can't stop paying them, so politicians, in some circumstances, are able to use them for things you don't want.