John_von_Neumann
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Spot on. So if taxes are cut there are no roads, military, schools, police. You end up in a Mad Max world.
Kershner's First Law. “When a self-governing people confer upon their government the power to take from some and give to others, the process will not stop until the last bone of the last taxpayer is picked bare.”There is a useful quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, as much as I differ from him on certain cases. "I like taxes. They buy me civilization." Now, personally, I think that we're often shortchanged and don't get what we're paying for...even Ana Kasparian recently ranted about that point. I think that we need to get more bang for our buck as average taxpayers rather than simply the rich, who get a lot more for their taxes than they pay into the system if you count it all up. I don't mind paying taxes. I don't want "free stuff." I just want my money's worth, and while the surveillance state and the warfare state are too heavily engaged, I'm definitely getting ripped off as well as having my privacy and other rights violated.
I also think that Mad Max is coming, anyway, but time will tell. Just be careful what you wish for....anarchy isn't what its proponents think that it is. It's a lot worse. I went through an anarchist phase. I got over it.
Spot on. So if taxes are cut there are no roads, military, schools, police. You end up in a Mad Max world.
I agree, the destruction of the middle class as a result of democrat policies is not an unintended consequence.I have my own first law, incidentally. If you want to know the most likely motive behind an action or policy, just look at its consequences. Unless they're incompetent, that's the objective right there.
An interesting point....certainly true on guns.