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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Correct. I would start by saying taxation should be correlated to the actual costs to society for activities that can not be assigned to specific people or groups. Hence, in my view taxes should not support things like PBS, or perhaps that the HS grad making $80,000 a year busting his a$$ spending weeks away from home driving a truck should not have his tax dollars used to support folks going to a university so they can graduate, get high paying white collar jobs and then look down on blue collar workers. Things like that is where I would start.
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But if it weren't for people going to university and getting high paying white collar jobs (a scenario that was probably more apt a few years ago) that truck driver wouldn't have a job.
And if taxation were correlated to actual costs to society, that truck driver might end up paying a bit more in taxes due to the pollution associated with a diesel truck for several house a day for weeks at a time.