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Originally Posted by woj
only in recent times mass taxation for everything became the norm... the actual problem is that somehow people got a twisted idea in their heads that government is supposed to take care of them "from the cradle to the grave", but throughout history that was never the role of the government and it shouldn't be now...
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Remember I'm fiscally conservative.
The reason people think the government owes them something is because they were raised being told so, by the government:
"We're taking this tax out of your check so if you're injured at work you get it back in disability payment" so you agree
"We're taking this tax out of your check so if you become unemployed we can pay you unemployment until you find work again" so you agree
"We're taking this tax out of your check so when you retire we can pay it back to you in social security." so you agree
"We're taking this tax out of your check so when you're older you'll get it back in Medicaid to take care of your health" so you agree
"We're charging you registration on your car and we're taxing that too so we can pay for roads and bridges" so you agree
"We're charging you a property tax on the home you own so we can have nice schools, a clean neighborhood and parks" so you agree
The city/state/national governments aren't following through on their end of the deal.
Taxes are a shell game as is the IRS but privatizing isn't the answer either we've seen how privatization always ends up in greed and collapse.
95% of American companies fail. Privatizing the government statistically means 95% of America will fail if that happens
So what's the answer?