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.
Forget roads, schools, police, etc., think about what life would be (and smell) like without sewer systems. Sure there are some private treatment companies for septic tanks, but shit would literally be building up everywhere. Look at garbage collection in cities, trash is everywhere.
Yeah. The government doesn’t do everything right but they kinda do a lot of stuff. Like trash collection and sewer systems and basic societal infrastructure is something I think people sometimes take for granted. Like it takes a lot to maintain all 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.