When will conservatives realize that taxes are the price one pays to live in a civilized society?

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Anonymous · Accepted Answer

They don't have enough sense to understand that.  Instead, they want to decrease federal income while demanding more money be spent, especially on the military.

goring · Answer

Taxes have be the reason for the American revolution. if the taxes exceed our income there may be another revolution.There must be a limitation to the constant raise of taxes.
Senior citizen have paid taxes all their life time. A when a spouse dies the Gov nixes his income that was shared with the wife and vice versa. This is not the case in Europe where the spouse collects both pensions.

Anonymous · Answer

The mafia demanded a tax. They too were very civil.

ctc453 · Answer

They're too stupid to understand that

graphicconception · Answer

If more taxes meant more civilisation then maybe conservatives would be happier about it. Sadly, it does not work like that.

So we end up with a world where a tax means that the government thinks it can spend your money better than you can.

out2lunch4now2 · Answer

When taxes are used ONLY for the few things authorized in the Constitution.  When everyone pays the same flat tax rate.

2 Thessalonians 3:10 · Answer

Taxation is not the only way to pay for public services, in fact it's an inferior way because it makes the state reliant on corporations, making regulatory capture much easier. The state lacks any financial basis of its own, thus in practice it is essentially powerless, and is easily captured by the private sector. "Public" services that result from this tend to be very low quality and usually only come into existence from a lot of civil unrest, then slowly become privatized again and fall apart.

Pearl · Answer

hopefully they will realize that soon

Bill · Answer

And yet all major forms of taxation would be a crime if anyone else committed it.

Income taxes:
 
Theft
Extortion
Involuntary servitude. 
Assumes ownership of everyone income.

Property taxes:

Theft. 
Extortion
Involuntary servitude
Turns property owners into rents.

Sales taxes:

Theft 
Involuntary servitude.

Btw, it's not actually true that taxation is needed under the current system.

Dze · Answer

thats actually not true .. some services do deserve a reserved fee, but taxes as a whole in a society that uses a 100% fiat money thats just printed off needs zero taxes .. if you 'are' getting taxed somebody has put themselves in the position of middle man and is skimming money off for themselves ... the colonists under Franklin proved how it 'should' work by controlling the printing of their own currency before england outlawed it .. they simply controlled the supply for the 'good of the people' and not to make profit .. it worked 'too good' for the bank of england .. the hardship that resulted from england banning their currency and imposing taxes is by and large what led to the unrest that sparked the revolution ..

When will conservatives realize that taxes are the price one pays to live in a civilized society?

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