So, I know some people who preach about how important it is to pay your taxes

but I also know a lot of the same people who wanna bring back a bartering system...

I always thought the government hated bartering because it couldn't be taxed?

I dunno, I could be wrong

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CountScrofula · 41-45, M

I don't the same people are saying those two things.

I want people to pay their taxes because we get stuff out of it. I want roads schools hospitals and a functioning welfare state. If I have to exist in this barely-functioning political system I at least want the public services to work properly and not to have sixty thousand private toll booths because we privatized the highways.

A bartering system doesn't make a lick of sense if you think about global logistics for a moment.