Comment on IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts
naught101@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoThat’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 5 weeks 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.
naught101@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yes, but you CAN have taxation without funding the military. You’re throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
I don’t think taxation is the only way to do this, but you do need some kind of process for ensuring common social services and infrastructure exist and are maintained. Taxation is what we have now. How would you support those services without it?
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
If you absolutely must have taxation, then have state taxation. Because I don’t see the state of Texas declaring war on Pakistan.
naught101@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
How would you fund federal services?
Seems to me the problem isn’t taxation, it’s the process for deciding how that government spending is distributed…