Comment on IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 week agoCan’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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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…
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
You can’t fix that problem. The fact that there is a big pile of money there means that greedy people will attempt to get their hands on it. No matter what. So the only way to fix that is to not have the big pile of money sitting there to begin with.