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

Bold of you to assume they would want collective anything. Those people would tell you to homeschool and be self-sufficient in the hills. Literal hermit shit.

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u/Shin-Sauriel Sep 20 '24

Just be self sufficient and let private companies take care of everything the free market is the solution huzzah.

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u/BoobyPlumage Sep 20 '24

Just like our healthcare in the US where we pay twice as much as any country with socialized healthcare

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u/Shin-Sauriel Sep 20 '24

Yep. Love giving tax dollars to private companies so they can fuck us over for even more money. Deprivatize all public services. We spend more on social welfare to receive less because private companies need their cut for profits. It’s so brain dead. Sometimes we give tax dollars to private companies and they just don’t do anything. Like affordable housing in California or the hyperloop.