Taxation - Make it Voluntary

I see taxation as theft and many others see it as the glue of social fabric, a moral imperative. They would also count my view as a very, very small minority so it wouldnt effect revenue too much.

Do you think that if it was made voluntary the champions of tax would still pay?

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LeopoldBloom · M

If paying tax is voluntary, you shouldn’t get any government services. That includes passports, police protection, a driver’s license, etc.

MarineBob · 56-60, M

@LeopoldBloom totally agree

gol979 · 41-45, M

@LeopoldBloom you dont need tax for those things. We pay for our passports and driving licences anyway and we could form local police, that actually work for the community.

There are much better ways to run services than taxation plus you wouldnt be paying for war, bailing out banks, vanity infrastructure projects (see london garden bridge, but lots of examples), handing massive grants to private corporations, death tax, politicians wages and exorbitant "expenses" etc etc

Penny · 46-50, F

@gol979 you do have a point about politicians salaries lol

LeopoldBloom · M

@gol979 Got it. So no need for a military, just volunteer citizen's militias. No roads except toll roads. No Social Security, Medicare, or welfare - just let people live off charity or die.

Unlike you libertarians, I actually lived in a country with virtually no taxation and no government services. Most people survived by subsistence farming. If they got sick, they either recovered on their own, or they died. The tiny, ineffective military was chased out of the northern half of the country around a decade ago when al Qaeda decided they wanted the land and just took over with almost no resistance. You may see that as paradise; if so, I invite you to move there.