Why Are We Paying Taxes?

[Weatherman2020]

Can anyone provide a good reason we pay taxes?

House progressives want Biden to supersize spending

Progressive Democrats in the House are privately discussing how they can push President Biden for a second spending package substantially bigger than the $3 trillion over a decade floated in various news outlets this week.Why it matters: These members are attuned to the climate group Sunrise...

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[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Can anyone provide a good reason we pay taxes?

So politicians can bribe voters to get reelected

 

[Moonglow]

Can anyone provide a good reason we pay taxes?

So politicians can bribe voters to get reelected

Does it help or are people still holding out for more?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Can anyone provide a good reason we pay taxes?

So politicians can bribe voters to get reelected

Does it help or are people still holding out for more?

The people never seem to be satisfied no matter how much they get

 

[Votto]

We need to do important work like teaching boys that they are really girls and girls that they are really boys.

Then we need to do gender studies in Pakistan so we can do the same to youth all around the world

Trust me, it will be well worth the money someday.

But people are not enlightened enough to embrace this so they have to hide in in Covid relief bills.

 

[jillian]

Can anyone provide a good reason we pay taxes?

House progressives want Biden to supersize spending

Progressive Democrats in the House are privately discussing how they can push President Biden for a second spending package substantially bigger than the $3 trillion over a decade floated in various news outlets this week.Why it matters: These members are attuned to the climate group Sunrise...

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Because government needs to operate for the general welfare, vanya

 

[Votto]

Can anyone provide a good reason we pay taxes?

House progressives want Biden to supersize spending

Progressive Democrats in the House are privately discussing how they can push President Biden for a second spending package substantially bigger than the $3 trillion over a decade floated in various news outlets this week.Why it matters: These members are attuned to the climate group Sunrise...

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Because government needs to operate for the general welfare, vanya

The general welfare clause was never meant to be used to turn the country into a socialist state, at least, this is what James Madison wrote about it because he was the author of the wording.

"If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare,
and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare,
they may take the care of religion into their own hands;
they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish
and pay them out of their public treasury;
they may take into their own hands the education of children,
establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union;
they may assume the provision of the poor;
they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads;
in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation
down to the most minute object of police,
would be thrown under the power of Congress.... Were the power
of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for,
it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature
of the limited Government established by the people of America."

 

[JGalt]

Can anyone provide a good reason we pay taxes?

House progressives want Biden to supersize spending

Progressive Democrats in the House are privately discussing how they can push President Biden for a second spending package substantially bigger than the $3 trillion over a decade floated in various news outlets this week.Why it matters: These members are attuned to the climate group Sunrise...

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To try to pay for what we spent 50 years ago?

Just guessing here.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

Can anyone provide a good reason we pay taxes?

House progressives want Biden to supersize spending

Progressive Democrats in the House are privately discussing how they can push President Biden for a second spending package substantially bigger than the $3 trillion over a decade floated in various news outlets this week.Why it matters: These members are attuned to the climate group Sunrise...

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It has something to do with the year 1913 is why.

 

[gipper]

Can anyone provide a good reason we pay taxes?

So politicians can bribe voters to get reelected

Does it help or are people still holding out for more?

The people never seem to be satisfied no matter how much they get

Not the people. You mean the 1%, wall st, and the MIC right?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Can anyone provide a good reason we pay taxes?

So politicians can bribe voters to get reelected

Does it help or are people still holding out for more?

The people never seem to be satisfied no matter how much they get

Not the people. You mean the 1%, wall st, and the MIC right?

No, I mean pretty much everyone.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Because government needs to operate for the general welfare

Define "general welfare"

 

[Dadoalex]

Can anyone provide a good reason we pay taxes?

House progressives want Biden to supersize spending

Progressive Democrats in the House are privately discussing how they can push President Biden for a second spending package substantially bigger than the $3 trillion over a decade floated in various news outlets this week.Why it matters: These members are attuned to the climate group Sunrise...

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Geez.
There is a thing called a "social compact."
Wherein the people of a society agree on the rules that govern that society.
They agree on a government type, its powers, and its relationship with the people it governs.
Some might call the "social compact" a "constitution."
Now in our social compact we have agreed on a representative form of government wherein the people give to the government powers to act on their behalf.
This includes things like collecting taxes, all described in the social compact or constitution.
Those members of a society who do not agree to the social compact have three choices:
Leave
Go tp prison
Die

Oh, and BTW, the link and your question are not related.

 

[gipper]

Can anyone provide a good reason we pay taxes?

So politicians can bribe voters to get reelected

Does it help or are people still holding out for more?

The people never seem to be satisfied no matter how much they get

Not the people. You mean the 1%, wall st, and the MIC right?

No, I mean pretty much everyone.

Okay. The thing is the people may want things from their government, but they don’t get them. The ultra rich big corporations and the MIC get whatever they demand.

The fact is there hasn’t been any real progressive legislation passed since the 1960s. This is because both parties are beholden to the almighty dollar and don’t give a shit about the people.

 

[Dragonlady]

Can anyone provide a good reason we pay taxes?

House progressives want Biden to supersize spending

Progressive Democrats in the House are privately discussing how they can push President Biden for a second spending package substantially bigger than the $3 trillion over a decade floated in various news outlets this week.Why it matters: These members are attuned to the climate group Sunrise...

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Taxes are your share of the costs of running a first world country. Like a condominium corporation - you have to chip in for your share of the costs of the courts, the military, the infrastructure, and government services. Unless you're a wealthy corporation, or a billionaire. They don't have to pay their fair share - you have to pay your share and theirs, even though they use a lot more of those government services and infrastructure than you do.

 

[evenflow1969]

Can anyone provide a good reason we pay taxes?

House progressives want Biden to supersize spending

Progressive Democrats in the House are privately discussing how they can push President Biden for a second spending package substantially bigger than the $3 trillion over a decade floated in various news outlets this week.Why it matters: These members are attuned to the climate group Sunrise...

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Because roads, bridges and sewers don't fix themselves dumb fuck. Cops don't work free. Military costs. You can go on and on . Your a moron.

 

[jillian]

Can anyone provide a good reason we pay taxes?

So politicians can bribe voters to get reelected

Better they should be in icimoetrnt and only serve billionaires and millionaires si they get donations?

you’ve been so duped

 

[Weatherman2020]

Can anyone provide a good reason we pay taxes?

So politicians can bribe voters to get reelected

Does it help or are people still holding out for more?

Lamborghini in every garage!

 

[Weatherman2020]

Can anyone provide a good reason we pay taxes?

House progressives want Biden to supersize spending

Progressive Democrats in the House are privately discussing how they can push President Biden for a second spending package substantially bigger than the $3 trillion over a decade floated in various news outlets this week.Why it matters: These members are attuned to the climate group Sunrise...

news.yahoo.com

Because government needs to operate for the general welfare, vanya

Is that why Biden is going to spend $4T more than he takes in?

 

[Anomalism]

Life in the U.S isn't that bad. A government is necessary for order. Our government is far from perfect but things could be a lot worse too. That government requires funding. People like you act as if we'd be better with no government. Asking why we need to pay taxes is childish and short-sighted. Grow up.