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[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago (9 children)

I always find it amusing when Americans can only come up with paying less taxes as the answer, then they don't understand why they get less services. It's almost like you should expect more from the tax dollars you already spend. But I guess that's the point of this post and I'm just beating a dead horse.

[–] ugh@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

That's my argument. There's no need to raise taxes. It's all scare tactics from the GOP. In Texas, a hot topic last election was our increased property taxes. The democratic nominee for governor proposed legalizing weed and using those tax dollars to lower property taxes. He lost the "moderates" when he proposed stricter gun control the last time he ran and they never got over it. Conservatives would rather pay extra money and complain about it than legalize the devil's lettuce.

Politics is theatre. They use buzz words to win the ignorant votes. I don't think we'll ever see a return on our taxes because of how much it would take to completely flip the system. Businesses would go bankrupt if we had access to socialized programs, and that goes against the capitalism that the country stands on.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Removing tax havens within the country would also do a fair bit, and people wouldn't notice any difference from that, except that there is a lot more money that the country could spend on more useful things.

[–] DEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Too bad spending money is considered "free speech" and all those tax haven dollars are used to buyout the people with the power to fix that problem

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

What would be considered corruption in most of the world is just the modus operandi of US politics.

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