Agree or disagree?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

[JacksSmirkingRevenge]

Depends what the taxes are used for.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Depends what the taxes are used for.

It's your duty as a citizen to fight unjust, unfair or unreasonable taxes.

[Rum]

I don't see them as dues so much as a contribution to the welfare of society as a whole. Of course one can debate what the taxes are used for (I'd scrap our nuclear deterrent tomorrow for example..).

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I don't see them as dues so much as a contribution to the welfare of society as a whole. Of course one can debate what the taxes are used for (I'd scrap our nuclear deterrent tomorrow for example..).

It's pay-to-play, IMHO.

[Rum]

I think it is mutually beneficial. The taxes I pay are spent on things I couldn't possibly afford to purchase - even if it was collectively with some sort of consortium.

Even tax paid on welfare (a big chunk here) is beneficial to me in my view. Without it the people who have fallen by the wayside of capitalisms labour system, whether involuntarily or otherwise, would be rioting on the streets or burgling my house to feed themselves. They are better off and I and mine are safer. Of course I would prefer it if they were working, but the fact is that capitalism is quite rapidly making the acquirement for mass labour redundant.

[MrJonno]

Taxation is the price of civilisation, without it 99% of us would be dead

[MiM]

I don't see them as dues so much as a contribution to the welfare of society as a whole. Of course one can debate what the taxes are used for (I'd scrap our nuclear deterrent tomorrow for example..).

Together with your permanent seat in the Security Council

[MiM]

Actually, I am with Rum here, and I am getting more socialist the older I get, and the more I see. Pure capitalism is as much an unachievable ideal as communism ever was.

[rasetsu]

Imo, taxes are nothing more than a) pooling resources, and b) structured, institutionalized altruism. I think much of the objection to taxation is the idea that it's forced, involuntary, unfairly distributed altruism.

It isn't so much that it's a price enacted by society as it is an expression of our biological nature. It's who we are as a social species.

[laklak]

A necessary evil.

[FBM]

Actually, I am with Rum here, and I am getting more socialist the older I get, and the more I see. Pure capitalism is as much an unachievable ideal as communism ever was.

Could be. All I know for sure is that the US sure hasn't achieved it yet.

[Svartalf]

Actually, I am with Rum here, and I am getting more socialist the older I get, and the more I see. Pure capitalism is as much an unachievable ideal as communism ever was.

ideal? Unless you're part of the 1% already, I don't see what's so desirable in it.

[MiM]

Actually, I am with Rum here, and I am getting more socialist the older I get, and the more I see. Pure capitalism is as much an unachievable ideal as communism ever was.

ideal? Unless you're part of the 1% already, I don't see what's so desirable in it.

Some people seems to find it desirable.

[redunderthebed]

Agreed although i think what our taxes are spent on should be more rigorously scrutinized and less emphasis on tax cuts and military spending and more on services and infrastructure.