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@ Detective Deft Defector
2025-04-17 13:35:09
Allegedly. So what is the point of sales tax and income taxes. Sales and income would be more than sufficient to fund the public services like police, firefighters and schools. The utilities you alluded to are maintained by mostly private entities who sell their services for profit. That's not how they're maintained. They might be called public infrastructure but they're maintained by private entities. I'm an electrician working on pump stations, purifying and waste facilities all over my state. They make more than enough to cover salaries and maintenance just in utility profits. They have to or their businesses would collapse. That's the whole reason Bitcoin mining is good for the infrastructure-because it gives profit to the utility providers-not the state or any other government (except for compulsory taxation, which again, in its wildly mismanaged state, is theft).
I truly don't understand how you could be a nostrich and defend property tax on anything. The whole point of being here is to own what's yours.
I'm in a shitty mood right now so please understand that I'm trying to be neighborly, but that's not how that works. Property taxes are profit for the state. The means to manage the rest of what your talking about, 95% doesn't come from taxation and the 5% that does is not only unnecessary but more of an inhibition to the utilities and the public than they are a public good, especially in a state like mine where that 5% is less than the 9.5% that I pay on literally anything as sales tax.
Meanwhile tire flattening potholes as far as the eye can see. I hear your perception, and I empathize, but I promise that's not how it works in practice.