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Board Economics
Re: why do people agree to pay taxes?
by
worle1bm
on 08/11/2014, 21:37:24 UTC
Yes, everyone, let's ignore that roads used to be funded and constructed by businesses, so you could patronize them without having to change your flat tires.
Yes, everyone, let's ignore the existence of volunteer fire/medic departments, and that you sometimes get billed, in addition to the taxes you already pay, if you use "the government's" public safety employees/contractors.
Yes, everyone, let's ignore the hundreds of trash companies that bill you for trash pickup, if you don't want to pay to drive your waste directly into the dump.
Yes, everyone, let's ignore that the vast majority of infrastructure projects were and are publicly funded.

... after government usurped the liberty and ultimate authority of private entities to fund infrastructure themselves (without corporate-government bribery).

<3 Stockholm syndrome.
So you, or a private company, are no longer allowed to fund infrastructure? Weird. You've completely fabricated that to support a poor argument.

<3 strawmen arguments and misused psychological conditions