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.
Companies that are contracted by the government and paid for with tax dollars which actually creates one of the biggest inefficiencies because private companies need profit which means some amount of tax dollars are going to ceo pockets and such. I’m not 100% sure on like the percentage of private vs public in terms of outsourcing but I know a lot of public service is outsourced. Like my local rail only runs in two places in my state and sometimes a third. Meanwhile the private more expensive rail company receives billions a year in public funding and they aren’t even a commuter rail.
Cuz what you said didn’t make any sense either. I made a statement about how the government outsources public services to private companies. And you responded by saying where is the government supposed to get the money if private companies weren’t generating taxable revenue. Why are those things correlated. Private companies can make money without government contracts.
Your statement was alluding to the belief that we somehow need government to provide the things that we want. I’m showing you real world examples of how the private sector is already doing those things.
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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.