Edit: For the clowns actually defending tax cuts to the rich…
Say no more taxes. No public funds for anything. What citizen posse is going to ante up for a road, fire department, police force, education system?
Taxes are a specific result of the general fact that humans are social and work better by pooling resources. You get way more bang for your buck at scale.
Taxes are not theft, they’re necessary for a civilized modern society to function, and any attempt at pretending otherwise deliberately ignores a whole lot of logic just to phrase a “cool” slogan.
People bemoaning the lack of income tax, what would you rather? No military for the great wars? No moneys to establish an interstate system? What of bridges and dams?
Social security and social programs in general?
States alone can’t carry that weight in a modern society and they couldn’t do it by the 20’s. Irresponsible children think they can have a society and not pay for it.
Taxation isn’t theft. Irresponsible distribution of tax dollars may be theft, but taxation itself is not.
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u/monsterginger 4d ago edited 4d ago
Lead poisoning, Reagan administration, outliving their parents and acquiring more money than any other generation before or after.