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Why absent taxes would we become thirld world? Will you all of the sudden stop wanting clean drinking water?
Stop wanting? You think Joe Sixpack in low tax Mexico or Guatemala dont want it? When clean drinking water costs billions of dollars to invest in, pipes are rusty and its not profitable, than people of limited means will have to go without. Whats so great about moving towards a low tax Mexican and Guatemalan society of even higher inequality and even more despair and social problems?
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Originally Posted by Frank DeForrest
If its necessary or wanted, it will be provided in the marketplace. C'mon is it that hard to imagine?
Except again, it would have to be paid for by tolls or user fees, and everyone would have to pay the same $ amount, which the lower classes can't afford to do
So if we make America more like Mexico or Guatemala with an even worse public safety net and higher income and wealth inequality, the social problems, despair, poverty and crime rates would improve?
Hyperbole. I can use the other extreme like the former Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea as examples of failed extreme socialism too.
Mexico today would be a paradise compared to those socialist republics.
The "your share" and the amount you cite is usually what these arguments devolve into.
I think 90% of these so-called libertarians would stop being libertarians if we ended means-testing in America. Means testing the safety net instead of universal programs is an ingenious way by the ruling class to pit the middle class against the poor.
If its necessary or wanted, it will be provided in the marketplace. C'mon is it that hard to imagine?
Yes, it is because for the life of me I can't think of a real-life example of when this happened.
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