“I want all the benefits of society and none of the responsibility.”
Wouldn’t it be great if you could just fill out a form saying “I don’t wanna pay tax” and then not pay tax.
No, because then the government wouldn’t have the funds to keep society running.
I like paying taxes.
The money has to come from somewhere. And if I didn’t pay taxes, it means everyone else will have to pay more.
If every company/individual/… paid the taxes they were owed, we would have a tax rate of like 10-20%
I like paying taxes
I don’t. Every time a child is burned alive, every time hundreds are made homeless by a drone strike, every time a book is banned, every time an innocent is murdered by police, I’m part of that, I funded that. I hate it.
The tough part is that you are both correct.
Yup. Like with most things related to governing, it’s necessary, but exploitable. It needs regulation, but the bigger it gets, the harder it is to regulate, but if we made it smaller, it wouldn’t be effective enough.
Right, child murder is required when you pay taxes. That’s international law
It’s not like I get to choose what is spent on, and yeah a shitload of it goes towards child murder. More of my money is spent hurting people than helping them.
If it makes you feel better, that’s not true. More discretionary spending is on “defense.” But roughly 2/3 of the full budget is mandatory spending which largely is social security, Medicare, medicaid, TANF, and SNAP and also includes education and transportation as smaller pieces.
Depends. I don’t really like to pay taxes because you have no real say where you tax money goes. Like when there is a huge pothole in front of my house but you read in the newspaper that they rip apart apartments where people live and build new luxury apartments for the ultra rich, i’m like… Cool stuff.
Or you’re american and pay taxes becuse the most important thing is that you have another 13 billion dollar airplane carrier, because 20 or however many aren’t enough.Your government builds luxury apartments with tax money?
This doesn’t actually apply on a federal level in the US. Taxes don’t pay for government services, taxes are basically a measure to control inflation.
Sad to see down votes for the truth. The feds print the money so they don’t absolutely NEED to collect it first. But if money going out is more than the money coming in through taxes, it increases the supply and decreases the value of each dollar.
Great in the sense that you personally would have more money, terrible for absolutely everything else around you.
Money is backed by the government, which would cease to exist, making your extra money worthless lol
I thought those were called company registration forms.
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I mean, taxes are optional. You really don’t have to pay them. Lots of people don’t. There will be consequences sure, but you can totally choose not to pay them. And you don’t even have to fill out a form.
