Indeed, it should be a very good thing. In wise societies, the most honored are those who are poorest because they've given away the most to the people who need it (and are best at obtaining the resources to give away).
Gut to the right wing in today's society, anything that might be giving someone (especially non-white someones) a helping hand is basically a slur. See "Welfare Queens", "Obamacare", etc.. God forbid one tax penny go to help someone else, and they don't know and don't care whether any such helping programs actually help reduce costs.
One is from a wise society that values every member, and shuns those who hoard resources, recognizing their poverty of spirit.
The other is from a society which is far less wise but still knows enough to understand that a society where everyone contributes some resources to common goods will always build a better society than can result from any anarchy.
And then there are the people in the latter societies who somehow think that the benefits of everyone else's taxes, such as roads, legal system, public education system, clean food and water regulations, national defense, etc. are simply natural resources existing for their benefit and that they shouldn't have to contribute.
Those people are called freeloaders, and are recognized as a problem, so contributions are compulsory, and called taxes.
If you don't like taxes, it might be best go find a country that doesn't have them.
A quick search turns up none, but you can get close; there are five countries where the total tax revenue is less than 5% of their GDP: Syria (1.30%), Cuba (2.40%), South Sudan (3.10%), Nigeria (4.10%), and Burma (4.20%) [0].
I notice no exodus among the many people who claim to despise taxes to go to these places where taxes are minimal.
This is proof positive that the benefits that come with taxes (e.g., a working system of infrastructure, law, education, etc.) far outweigh the "freedom" from taxes.
Have you picked up an moved to a near-zero tax country? If not, maybe stop being a hypocrite whining about taxes and start appreciating the benefits that a higher tax and higher service society brings, of which you obviously prefer to take advantage.
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Indeed, it should be a very good thing. In wise societies, the most honored are those who are poorest because they've given away the most to the people who need it (and are best at obtaining the resources to give away).
Gut to the right wing in today's society, anything that might be giving someone (especially non-white someones) a helping hand is basically a slur. See "Welfare Queens", "Obamacare", etc.. God forbid one tax penny go to help someone else, and they don't know and don't care whether any such helping programs actually help reduce costs.
(yeah, let the downvotes begin)
One of these things is not like the other.
Yes.
One is from a wise society that values every member, and shuns those who hoard resources, recognizing their poverty of spirit.
The other is from a society which is far less wise but still knows enough to understand that a society where everyone contributes some resources to common goods will always build a better society than can result from any anarchy.
And then there are the people in the latter societies who somehow think that the benefits of everyone else's taxes, such as roads, legal system, public education system, clean food and water regulations, national defense, etc. are simply natural resources existing for their benefit and that they shouldn't have to contribute.
Those people are called freeloaders, and are recognized as a problem, so contributions are compulsory, and called taxes.
If you don't like taxes, it might be best go find a country that doesn't have them.
A quick search turns up none, but you can get close; there are five countries where the total tax revenue is less than 5% of their GDP: Syria (1.30%), Cuba (2.40%), South Sudan (3.10%), Nigeria (4.10%), and Burma (4.20%) [0].
I notice no exodus among the many people who claim to despise taxes to go to these places where taxes are minimal.
This is proof positive that the benefits that come with taxes (e.g., a working system of infrastructure, law, education, etc.) far outweigh the "freedom" from taxes.
Have you picked up an moved to a near-zero tax country? If not, maybe stop being a hypocrite whining about taxes and start appreciating the benefits that a higher tax and higher service society brings, of which you obviously prefer to take advantage.
[0] https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-countries-with-the-l...