Violence in America- best video EVER

[Crow]

Whoopsy Daisy!

[Zimobog]

Crow said:

There's a lot of strange things about Mr Crow

Hell, being strange is fine.

If you want to stop paying for the road system, then keep your vehicle off my roads; or I'll have to send those coppers (from the video) for a little visit

So if I agree to not use "your" roads, than no one will come and collect taxes for the roads from me? Might be better if all "your" roads were toll roads.

[Crow]

Crow said:
Hell, being strange is fine.

So if I agree to not use "your" roads, than no one will come and collect taxes for the roads from me? Might be better if all "your" roads were toll roads.

You pay taxes for petrol.. So we'll get that money somehow!

Taxes are what drive the economy. We're not living in 18th century America ...and even if we were, we still need revenue to run the country!

[Zimobog]

Taxes "tax" the economy. Taxes supress the economy by adding cost without benefit. Taxes prohibit capital growth in emergening sectors of the economy and prohibit competition.

If your position is that taxes are "redistributed" through out the economy, remember that there are costs that are never recovered: the cost of collecting, the cost of paying administrators and enforcers and their pensions, the costs of funding the political class. A large portion of what is collected never reaches the intended beneficiaries of the spending due to the high cost of confiscation.

Then there are the unseen losses: what might that money have done, what jobs might have been created, what new ventures and exchanges might people have done. The unseen losses are the toughest to gauge, but they exist. See Fredric Bastiat's "The Seen and the Unseen". You are only seeing what taxes are "spent" on, not what a person might have been spent that same money on, had they not been robbed of it.

Taxation and redistribution is the least efficent way for money and goods to circulate and grow in the economy.

Taxation, in order to force compliance, requires the initation of violence. It is, therefore, theft.

So what we have held up as "nessecary" (in the 18th century and the 21st) is an inefficient, violent, and economically damaging system of theft.
And no good can come of it.

[Zimobog]

Here is a short video about Bastiat's "Broken Window Fallacy".

[Crow]

Here is a short video about Bastiat's "Broken Window Fallacy".

Using that logic, we should stop paying for public works so we can all buy new suits while infrastructure deteriorates... Genius!

That video cracked me up. Got any more?

[Zimobog]

What good is any infrastructure when you have to beat people up to pay for it? It is built on the blood of your brothers and sisters.

[Crow]

Either you're trolling me or you're way out there. Either way... I like it!

[CzechCzar]

What universe are you living in lolz

Taxes are what drive the economy. We're not living in 18th century America ...and even if we were, we still need revenue to run the country!

[Crow]

The realm of reality, my good sir

[Zimobog]

A strange alternate universe where taxes drive the economy and violent flogging of subject slave races is normlz!

[CzechCzar]

So theft is good?

[CzechCzar]

Gimme ur moneyzz

[Zimobog]

A fine example of crumbling statist infrastructure:

[Burnsey]

Interesting.

36 Obama aides owe $833,ooo in back taxes.

http://news.investors.com/politics-a...back-taxes.htm

This article gives a better picture: At the Executive Office of the President – encompassing 1,800 employees of the West Wing, the Office of Management and Budget, the National Security Council and the Office of U.S. Trade Representative, among others – 36 staffers, or 2 percent, owed a $833,970. The amount owed increased by almost $3,000 from the previous year.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...KKJQ_blog.html

Anyway, it takes money to have the roads, community water systems, street lights, fire depts, cops, defense, etc. How would this be paid for without taxes? I would hope that someday we have a tax system that is more fair for all.