07-29-2020, 01:43 AM
Taxes are the basis for a well-functioning society: for universal education and healthcare, equal law and order, child care, environmental protection, infrastructure, firefighting, and you name it. In many European countries, this is working quite well.
I think we can agree that the country you describe is very dysfunctional, which is a big shame. The result of big corporations owning the parties, thus ensuring that tax money is directed away from anything that "threatens" them, like good mass education, sane environmental laws, and anything that prevents them from siphoning off huge chunks of that same money using unjust methods (e.g. by privately-run prisons - just one out of countless examples)? This is not the fault of taxes, but of the people being fooled into electing very bad representatives like the current clown, instead of someone who actually cares.
But I digress, this is very off topic...
I think we can agree that the country you describe is very dysfunctional, which is a big shame. The result of big corporations owning the parties, thus ensuring that tax money is directed away from anything that "threatens" them, like good mass education, sane environmental laws, and anything that prevents them from siphoning off huge chunks of that same money using unjust methods (e.g. by privately-run prisons - just one out of countless examples)? This is not the fault of taxes, but of the people being fooled into electing very bad representatives like the current clown, instead of someone who actually cares.
But I digress, this is very off topic...