Comment on IRS braces for $500bn drop in revenue as taxpayers skip filings in wake of DOGE cuts
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 1 week agoLol, 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.