While I’m typically all for debate and reason, this take is objectively the most fucking moronic spew of nonsense every single time I come across it on par with the sovereign citizen batshit nonsense.
Comment on IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Taxation is theft, so not paying them is fine by me. But if you’re going to do so, you probably shouldn’t be shouting about it on the internet.
aramova@infosec.pub 1 week ago
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
And opinions are like assholes. You have one and so do I.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Not paying taxes is theft.
The government is going to spend whatever it wants. They will get the money by printing it if they can’t get it from tax. This causes rampant inflation, which is the same as a flat tax.
By not paying your share of taxes, you’re simply stealing from your neighbors.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Don’t use a money they can print. Use gold.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Oh my. Really, go open a history book. Look at what the gold standard did to limit our economy. Look up why Fort Knox existed at that time. Look how big it would have to be today, and understand there isn’t that much gold in the entire world.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
There is enough gold in the world for everybody to have an equal amount. You can divide gold down to one one thousandth of an ounce of gold with current technology, which is plenty small enough to work with.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 1 week ago
Lol, go and visit some country with a very low tax rate or no tax. need to visit a hospital? That’s a 3h drive across some unpaved road on the next big city. Want to cook your food? Go and collect some wood for your brick stove, because the city does not provide gas or power to your house. Need water or power? See gas. Want to read a book? Bad luck, there was no free school service in your village to learn how to read. House on fire or crime in the neighborhood? Well I have more bad news for you .
vga@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Perhaps you oughta visit Switzerland some day.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 1 week ago
What are you talking about? There is more than one tax, on top of municipal or federal there are taxes for income, products and services, wealth, profit etc. - not just vat.
And tax is not “taken away” from people, ot goes back into the economy by building roads and brides, social care for the elderly can afford rent and food, employment and contracts for people working in the region.
Madison420@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You’re part of the problem go back to civics class and this time pay attention.
prototype_g2@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 week ago
No it’s not. Not paying your taxes and using public services is more arguably theft.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 week ago
We have few public services and the few that we have are being torn down as you read this comment, so they might be half right for the wrong reasons.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
So you enjoy killing people. Got you. Because that’s what your tax money is used for. To fund wars halfway across the globe. For people you’ve never met and who have caused you no harm.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 week ago
What a disingenuous take. Surely you can see how no one’s going to take that message seriously, and no one will be convinced?
Taxes also pay for health care, roads, libraries, arts, and countless other things. Do you hate health care, roads, libraries, and art? I mean, maybe, but I wouldn’t be confident about guessing that based solely on your position on taxation.
None of this is supporting your initial claim of “taxation is theft”
naught101@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That’s just an argument that the military budget should be dramatically reduced (absolutely agree!), and that taxation is a problem in general.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Can’t fund the military without taxation. If you told citizens to donate to support a war effort halfway across the globe that has no impact on their daily lives, they’d be absolutely certain to do it. /s. Now, coerce them with the threat of being thrown in a cage, or at the barrel of a gun, and that’s different.
Eheran@lemmy.world 1 week ago
So you do not like educated people? Because that is what taxes are used for.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
There are these things called homeschools or small community schools. Also, if you are a D-I-N-K type family, why should you have to pay for somebody else’s children?
Eheran@lemmy.world 1 week ago
So you don’t like education? Because that is what taxes are used for.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Parents should be allowed to homeschool their children, not send them to government-funded indoctrination camps. Also, if you are a D.I.N.K. family, why exactly should you have to pay for other people’s children?
prototype_g2@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Not in my country. What? You forgot the USA wasn’t the only country in the world?
It seems like you have a problem with capitalism, not with the concept of taxes.