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Originally Posted by JobHopper
Give them an inch and they'll take a mile. I understand and don't mind paying taxes but there comes a time when you just can't anymore.
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What is the point where you just can't pay anymore.
For some reason any discussion around taxes assumes we are somehow in the goldilocks tax zone where anymore is too much and any less will result in a catostrophic cut in services. Neither is true.
The first thing we should do is decide what things we want the government to provide, then find out how much that costs, then set the tax rate, if that rate is to high go back and decide what services we want to cut.
Each tax increase or decrease should be centered around what service we add or removed and the cost of said service. I hate how increases and decrease are always generic. We need to link the taxes to the services they provide.