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Dec 2, 2019
7:35
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D.T. Survivor
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I’m curious what you think about public services
Such as roads, emergency services like police and fire departments, national park maintenance and forest service as well, etc. how would you recommend doing this in a purely free market approach? Who would pay to protect our president?
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Totally forgot you lose the child credit at 17 and not at 18
JONBOY
12/2/19 6:39am
I forgot that too. I have a 17 year old as well. Crap.
Mister P
12/2/19 6:41am
Yes, just when they get the most expensive!
bacoug
12/2/19 6:43am
My son turns 17 in May. Does this mean no child tax credit?
idacoug
12/2/19 6:52am
If you’re talking about May 2020, you’ll still get the credit for your 2019
TriggerWarning
12/2/19 7:05am
Taxation is theft.
molodyets
12/2/19 6:57am
In that case, so is use of public services without paying for them.
fbguru
12/2/19 7:06am
You think Bezos doesn't pay his taxes? lol.
molodyets
12/2/19 7:11am
Maybe, but does he pay his "fair share?"
Mister P
12/2/19 7:13am
He pays a lot more than you despite the same level of usage
mudpupper
12/2/19 7:32am
The same level of usage? Amazon is likely the nation's largest user of public
fbguru
12/2/19 7:45am
I was referring to Bezos personally. But when looking at Amazon, you have to
mudpupper
12/2/19 7:59am
Plus their employees pay a ton of taxes individually.
dYrtbYkerYder
12/2/19 10:52am
Sounds like an argument from Breadline Bernie
AZ Coug
12/2/19 5:39pm
The top 1% pay 40% of income taxes, so I think the answer is yes
AZ Coug
12/2/19 5:38pm
Do you really think this?
Joe Banks
12/2/19 7:15am
Taxation is the penalty we pay for failing to create a civilized society. If
molodyets
12/2/19 7:20am
war is murder, police are illegal, etc.
Linescratcher
12/2/19 7:35am
I’m curious what you think about public services
D.T. Survivor
12/2/19 7:35am
"Failing to create a civilized society"
CommodoreCoug
12/2/19 7:37am
Exactly, if we were truly civilized we wouldn't need to use force to get money
molodyets
12/2/19 7:40am
So if a thing that's never happened suddenly happened, things would be different
Linescratcher
12/2/19 7:45am
Yes
Skipshot
12/2/19 3:49pm
You need to be a federal employee. Then you will be ok with taxes
OU Cougar
12/2/19 7:17am
How else you propose that law enforcement, government, defense, infrastructure,
chilango
12/2/19 7:55am
Privatize it. We'd figure it out.
molodyets
12/2/19 7:59am
OK, let’s talk about it. How would privatized national defense work?
chilango
12/2/19 8:01am
Here:
molodyets
12/2/19 8:05am
that's literally no different
Linescratcher
12/2/19 8:10am
How exactly does this concept avoid taxation? I don’t see it. I think maybe you
chilango
12/2/19 8:16am
the operative word is voluntary.
molodyets
12/2/19 8:50am
nice to see a libertarian on the board.
BleedBlue801
12/2/19 9:10am
they're in such scant supply here...
Linescratcher
12/2/19 9:28am
So someone thinks that people would voluntarily pay enough money to fund
chilango
12/2/19 12:16pm
I would love it if everyone was benevolent and industrious
D.T. Survivor
12/2/19 12:56pm
Our wars would only be fought if it was financially beneficial
D.T. Survivor
12/2/19 11:33am
Or more likely, private mercenary armies would only fight for the benefit of
chilango
12/2/19 12:21pm
Voluntary Law and Order
supercoco
12/3/19 1:40pm
*without representation
frontrowcougar
12/2/19 9:36am
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