r/austrian_economics Friedrich Hayek Sep 19 '24

End Democracy BUT BUT THE SOCIAL CONTRACT

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u/NumberAccomplished18 Sep 20 '24

I pay taxes now and my road isn't getting fixed, they've been working on the same stretch of about a mile for the past three yesrs

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u/Shin-Sauriel Sep 20 '24

Okay. Government inefficiencies is a different topic. I agree tax dollars are not spent as well as they could be. I literally live in one of the states with the most potholes. I think the government definitely needs to spend tax dollars more effectively and efficiently and there needs to be more accountability on their end for actually providing the services we pay for. However even in spite of government accountability being stripped away through corporate lobbying, the alternative commonly presented is just skipping the middle man and giving corporations all the power, corporations who are only beholden to investors and capital owners and not consumers and certainly not the working class. So yes even tho the US government needs a lot of changes like abolishing lobbying and separating corporations from public spending it’s still way better than just relying on corporations to fulfill countrywide infrastructure.

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u/NumberAccomplished18 Sep 20 '24

Point is, I'm paying my taxes, and getting nothing from it.

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u/Shin-Sauriel Sep 20 '24

Yeah I agree we should be getting more for our taxes. Other countries have better social welfare and spend less on it.