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Originally Posted by Da Munk
I'm not sure either if that was anyone's argument, but it seems perfectly logical to claim that taxes are bad because politicians are corrupt and wasteful. Perhaps not as some abstract idea, but definitely taxes in reality. If they can't handle the money they already have correctly, where would the logic be in giving them more?
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Nall politicians are corrupt and wasteful and even if they were you could not reasonably assume that they wouldn't use more money for something good.
In any system, waste and corruption are just some of the inevitable cost of doing business. There will never be a system of human self government that doesn't contain waste and corruption. It is naive to claim that more taxes are automatically bad because the politicians won't be as cautious and ethical as you would like in spending those taxes. Starving the beast doesn't really work. In my state they're attempting to starve the beast and all they've really accomplished is the underfunding of local services like the fire department and the police department as well as the department of transportation among others.