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Originally Posted by Griff
I had written a long rant in response to Ali's misconception about the relationship between States and roads. Bruce said it nicer and better.
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I was only using roads as an example of a public facility, so I apologize for my misconception as to where the funds come from. It's not exactly that way here although a portion of road maintenance is paid for by fuel taxes, not all is.
My point is and always has been against Radar's notion that it's illegal for the government to expect citizens to pay personal income taxes.
If roads is a bad example, perhaps we could use public libraries instead. Perhaps it's not the same there, but here most towns and definitely all cities have public libraries which are funded mostly by government grants but also through some patronage but of course, the government funding is raised through taxes.
If you'd rather, we could look at police. Who's going to pay their wages if there's no income tax? Or how about judges and magistrates?
There are a whole range of public facilities and systems which would not be possible if it were not for income taxes.
As I've said before, if you don't want to pay taxes, that's fine, but you go and live away from society. Be self sufficient and do your thing. I have no problem with that what so ever. If that's what people want to do, they should go ahead and do it, but you only make yourself a hypocrite if you live within society and don't pay your taxes.