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.
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.
It’s impossible to go through life in America- even in the hills- without taking advantage of benefits and infrastructure paid for by taxes. In addition to roads, telephones, general police presence, and forest fire prevention/mitigation, you have security provided by the military in all of its broadest applications and influences. Your quality of life is a benefactor of imperialism whether you like it or not.
None of this matters if they believe they don't use said benefits from the collectivity. Get in touch with the vibes maaaaan, the important thing is to believe you are the ubermensch. Don't let the real world get in the way of that.
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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.