Lumberjim: Every single constitutional part of government can be paid for with the excise taxes, tariffs already collected from other countries (although I'd have it spread out evenly at about 3% to make it fair). That includes our military, judiciary, etc. Who do you think pays for the roads now? The states do. The states have sales taxes, property taxes, and other taxes that pay for local infrastructure. If not a single penny of income tax was collected starting today, we'd still have a military, court system, sewars, roads, libraries, police, firefighters, etc.
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if there was no tax, wouldn't this all be privatized and therefore cost the consumer a whole shit load more? would all roads be toll roads? I don't see it.
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You've got that backwards. Private industry is ALWAYS cheaper than government. The roads, and everything else would be far cheaper privately than through government. Competition breeds superior quality and lower prices.
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the government exists as it does because it has evolved that way from neccessity.
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That's completely false. It's not necessary for government to steal from Americans and send it to other countries. To pay tobacco farmers to grow tobbacco and then pay for anti-smoking campaigns, to try to do everything for everybody. But those trying to get elected are trying to please everyone looking for a handout and who gets left to pay the bill? It's you and me.
I'd rather pay for what I want to use, and not for what I don't. I'd rather go through voluntary exchange than through coercive force. I'd trust private industry far more than I trust goverment.
Hitler came to power because of America's involvment in WWI. The war was nearly over and armistice talks were already being prepared when America came in and prolonged the war for a year and a half, and then because France was our friend (They were still pissed about losing land to Germany in the Franco-Prussian war) we blamed the war on Germany even Austria started it and put unimaginably horrible restrictions on them and took all their assets. When the whole world went into depression, it was even worse in Germany which left the people so desperate they'd even listen to Hitler. Were it not for the conditions forced on Germany by America, Hitler would have been laughed at and never come to power.