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The fire department service only if you pay wasn't workable.
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The fire department service only if you pay wasn't workable.
The fire department service only if you pay wasn't workable.
Roads and the Post Office come to mind. But aside from those blatant monopolies, the government creates a monopoly for itself simply by providing a service like police or fire. Why would I pay for private fire departments when I'm already being taxed for the public fire department? Not to mention schools, which is a whole other beast.
Fed Ex, UPS?
Oh yeah, that monopoly on Rural routes where private companies won't deliver.
FedEx and UPS are not permitted to deliver mail, and of course they won't deliver to more obscure locations when it makes more sense to just send it through the Postal Service.
The fire department service only if you pay wasn't workable.
I'm sorry I don't really understand what it is you're saying here.
Fed Ex, UPS?
Oh yeah, that monopoly on Rural routes where private companies won't deliver.
FedEx and UPS are not permitted to deliver mail, and of course they won't deliver to more obscure locations when it makes more sense to just send it through the Postal Service.
Yeah, no ond has ever shipped a single page, 8&1/2 x 11 piece of paper by UPS or FED Ex.
It makes more sense to send it to obscure locations because USPS is requiredn to service obscure locations while private companies, like Fed Ex aren't, and therfor don't.
The fire department service only if you pay wasn't workable.
I'm sorry I don't really understand what it is you're saying here.
Sorry to hear that.
I'm sorry I don't really understand what it is you're saying here.
Sorry to hear that.
Maybe you should write more clearly.
https://www.ruralmetrofire.com/
Nobody told them their business model "wasn't workable," apparently.
Yeah, people, a bagel tax. Now, Im like you. Bagels are sacred, especially those precious morsels that have peanut butter and strawberry jelly schmeared on them. Dont you, dear and precious people, want to have to pay to get your bagels schmeared? WHAT WORLD DO WE LIVE IN?! What next, a burger tax in Wisconsin that affects all burgers that have more than one patty of meat? If we get a cheese tax in WI, there will be riots.
Which explains why we find them in the majority of counties and cities. YepI'm sorry I don't really understand what it is you're saying here.
Sorry to hear that.
Maybe you should write more clearly.
https://www.ruralmetrofire.com/
Nobody told them their business model "wasn't workable," apparently.
Which explains why we find them in the majority of counties and cities. YepSorry to hear that.
Maybe you should write more clearly.
https://www.ruralmetrofire.com/
Nobody told them their business model "wasn't workable," apparently.
Wouldn’t it be something if people could opt out of paying taxes towards things they don’t agree with?
Wouldnt it be something if people could opt out of paying taxes towards things they dont agree with?
Yeah, it would be something, particularly when they realize theyll end up paying the same or more, and getting less for it.
Back when the STATES were levied taxes by the CONFDERATION, but those taxes were paid VOLUNTARILY by the states??
What happened?
The CONFEDERATION went broke.
Now if the STATES won't voluntarily pays their taxes, what chance that individual citizens would volunteer to pay them?
If we want a viable government, taxes must be paid.
Utopia - Greek ou-topos meaning 'no place'
What about when one is forced to use a service because the government has given itself a monopoly on that service? Saying that "one should pay for services used" would simply be a self-fulfilling prophecy in that sense. Since I have no choice but to use this service, I must then fund the service, thus continuing to force myself into using the service.
The government does not currently have that many monopolies.
Roads and the Post Office come to mind. But aside from those blatant monopolies, the government creates a monopoly for itself simply by providing a service like police or fire. Why would I pay for private fire departments when I'm already being taxed for the public fire department? Not to mention schools, which is a whole other beast.
All of you have brought up good points, and for that I'm grateful.
From my very limited perspective (not so much thanks to you guys) I still think people should be able to opt out of some taxes. It just doesn't seem fair to ave to pay for a bagel tax, especially if you don't even eat bagels. Or to have to pay for abortion clinics if you're ardently pro-life. If you don't believe in going to war in the Middle East, one's taxes shouldn't have to go towards that, either.
These politicians are like mosquitos and they'll stop at nothing to siphon money from you to pay for whatever it is they're up to, whether you like it or not. We should make it so that citizens pay the essentials, but not, in the very least, the fringe taxes around the country.