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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I feel like I'm in crazytown when I express distress about taxation - literally people forcibly taking away your property - and ppl act like I'm the crazy one. Sure, you could argue that this forcible theft is worth it, and I'll respect that, but it's still not crazy to be upset.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@sam91860232
How do you know? We didn't have income tax until what... 1913? and America was still creating infrastructure just fine. It's very possible, likely even, that we'd be even more prosperous and happy if we hadn't been taxing this hard since then.
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@BeeCeeKae
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@Aella_Girl
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@sam91860232
Possible, likely even, we’d be even more prosperous? The wealthy had lower taxes during the Bush years and our infrastructure didn’t get better. Many European countries have higher taxes and their infrastructure is much better than ours in terms of resilience and efficiency.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@BeeCeeKae
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@sam91860232
Our infrastructure didn't get better? Didn't the internet economy get its footing during that time? Also we spend *more money on healthcare* than European countries do, and we have worse outcomes. This isn't just an issue of "raise taxes = better outcomes"
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