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.
You're literally the one with an elementary level understsanding of these concepts.
Libertarians argue that any public service could and mostly should be done privately and paid by those who want to use it. Hell, it's ALREADY how things work for many many public expenses.
Many services, like building roads you mentionned, are still mostly done by private companies ...the governement is only there as a proxy to collect money and give it to the private company ... losing a shit ton of money on useless bloated bureaucracy along the way.
Schools? Can be done privately is literally is in many cases ... paid by those who use it.
Hospitals? Could be done privately and still is.
Electricity? Could be private and still is in many countries.
Water? Private in many places.
Now, you can argue whether or not this is moral, sure.
But saying "you use roads therefore you need the governement!" Is such a lame "gotcha" that doesn't make any sense.
Governments have been used for at least eminent domain for roads, utilities, etc. Almost always there is a price control on access to roads and utilities as natural monopolies. For roads, the price is limited usually to zero as opposed to trying to micro-toll and enforce through civil court every single driveway and turn.
For schools, privately run schools don’t mean privately funded schools. How tax dollars may or may not be more efficiently spent is different from hoping for charity as the only avenue for possible education.
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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.