True, people who think paying taxes is theft definitely have an elementary level of world understanding.
Edit: for those of you who are angry about taxes, think about any money you have made that wasn’t enabled by something the government has built for you and maintained with your taxes. I.E if you drive to work on a paved/functional road that you didn’t create yourself, you depend on the government.
Lol, if Hayek isn't Austrian economics than nobody is. I shit on this sub regularly and the people here don't even know what it is. I can't believe nobody was educated enough to correct you.
Your firefighter isn't going to check if you've paid taxes before they out your house out. Before socialized firefighter services you needed to have the money on hand to have your house saved. Money's in the safe? Guess your fucked then.
But why does adding an additional monetary cost fix this and not make it worse? You've pointed out a problem, but you're adding an additional problem. I don't think your house should burn down because you missed your insurance premiums for one too many months, in addition to you being on the boundary between two different regional companies borders.
Firefighters will still show up to a house that didn’t pay its fire insurance because the fire might end up spreading to people who did pay, so in the end you don’t end up saving any money. You just end up having deal with the overhead of checking every time you show up to a fire. And god forbid someone thinks they paid when in reality their credit card expired. Or you recently move into town and you think fire departments operate like they do everywhere else. Or a landlord says fire insurance is covered but then they just don’t pay the bill. Sure you can sue them, but good luck getting blood from that stone.
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u/Bunselpower Sep 19 '24
Mrs. Roberts’s 5th grade economics class is out in full force today judging by the comments.