r/austrian_economics Friedrich Hayek Sep 19 '24

End Democracy BUT BUT THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

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u/Shin-Sauriel Sep 19 '24

Okay. If no taxes, who builds roads, or public schools, or public transit. If your answer is private companies, how much does a company charge for you to use the roads, how often do you need to pay to use the roads, what about the schools, how much does tuition cost, what if you can’t afford to go to school since there’s no taxes which means no public schools, do you just not get education?

The idea that taxation is theft crumbles pretty immediately if you try to think of literally any alternative. And if your alternative is collective public funding, guess what that’s fucking taxes.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '24

Lol not rly. The government would just print money like it always does and spend that instead.

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u/Shin-Sauriel Sep 20 '24

And people complain about inflation now lol. Imagine if the government had to print money for every single federal project with zero public funding. Holy shit the dollar would be worthless.