Wow moron libertarians have infiltrated lemmy.
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Hey guess what, today is educate a libertarian day.
The money don’t come out of thin air. Your property taxes are highest in the nation, you have extra business taxes, extra fuel taxes, and specific targeted fees that make up for it.
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Wow, what a terrible idea, so. It means no safety net for people, not even for those lucky strikes that send you 1 week ICU.
Also it means that the goverment can not act like the last resource insurance or just distribute the risk to all the population for risk wide county, effectively reducing the quota at the same time that nobody is left behind.
Also not future planning or things with long return investment...
What more could go wrong?
So do they not repair roads or what
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Their motto is "Live Free or Die" but weed is still illegal. Also, sure they have no income tax but their property tax is insane.
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Neither does Texas. It’s nothing to brag about. Just look at the state of TX infrastructure.
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If only the tax we pay was used for healthcare, education and basic social needs like public transports. Instead, to finance wars or other ideology, these budgets are cut. Taxes end up fueling bullshit like ice raids, ballrooms, company buyouts and what have you...
That said I wonder how the social construct is maintained in new Hampshire without taxes. Does that mean no public school or hospitals (or maybe those are financed at the federal level ?)
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I like paying tax.
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Not well researched on this, but off the top of my head it doesn't seem like the best policy (disproportionally impacts low income people.) The state still needs to collect money for maibtaining roads, libraries, schools, etc. This is likely coming from stuff like sales tax, etc. People on lower incomes are more likely to spend a higher portion of their income on goods (food, gas, etc.) Since the price of those is semi-fixed relative to income, while those who are of higher income are more likely to save the money. This leads to low income people effectively being taxed more of their wage than high income people. Might be totally wrong though, would really need to look at the policies on this style of taxation and if it makes any sense. What probably matters most is where the governments revenue is actually coming from.
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