Yeh i agree man. With 350 million people taxes seems like the only model that can work. I think that we should have never gotten this big. Again we are best suited for tribes of 150 to 200 people. After 200 or so the social responsibilty starts to get watered down. This is especially true if not everyone looks the same.
Why not? If you needed lifesaving medical assistance ASAP and the nearest hospital refused to serve you based on the color of your skin, would you agree with that despite having the insurance/ability to pay for the service?
So they dont need to keep printing more and more of it for routine investments/expenses.
I would not like it but I feel very uncomfortable using force to make a person do anything.
Well. I like private businesses not being able to pollute our water. Or not being able to put whatever they want in our food / drugs. Or not being able to build cars and planes with zero safety standards.
Because without the concept of taxes the populace would demand even more than we already do.
I understand totally. For me this is a moot point since I think modernity has caused more problems than it solved.
I think about this from time to time. How much better is your life really than a hunter gatherer? Lets say your commute is pretty good so 30x2 minutes, 8 hours work, 1 hour unpaid lunch to do your powerwalk cardio on, 1 hour strength training, 9 hours sleep + 30 minutes falling asleep, at least 1 hour for making and eating food, hygiene, preparing for work, errands. Thats at least 21:30 hours a day maintaining your existence. What do you do on your spare time? kids, wife, friends, activities, chilling. All stuff a hunter gatherer does too. And with reduced population densities because of no agriculture, and no lifestock, you dont have as much disease as youd think. The improved lifestyles also eliminate a lot of disease and HGs have way better mental health too. You have medicinal plants. You automatically have a community.
Our lives are not better than hunter gatherers. There are many books that confirm this. Check out the book Tribe by Sebastian Unger and the book Civilized to Death by Christopher Ryan. You can also watch interviews of the authors.
While there have been some pains with integration, calling it a disaster for black Americans is a little insane tbh. Like I stated previously, you would have been denied lifesaving medical attention due to the color of your skin. What if this was your mom, dad, child, and etc? You are on this forum participating, but you could have easily been denied membership due to your skin color. These are not extreme scenarios, but realities that African Americans faced pre civil rights. Yes, blacks had their own businesses, but blacks had their own businesses during slavery, so does that make slavery good? Last, blacks still have their own businesses today as well.
Blacks had their own services. Blacks had their own self contained communities. They were not just dying in the streetsn Blacks were forced to become dentist. I am not sure about hospitals though. I dont think there were any black run hospitals yet except maybe Howard University.
For example did you know that before integration blacks had a higher rate of marriage than even whites? We had no choice but to stick together.
If you've heard of Gary Webb, he's the "suicided" journalist who exposed the CIA selling crack to the inner cities during the 80's
citizentruth.org
www.zerohedge.com
Better than being young o wise one.
Yes Gary Webb story is tragic and used to make me very angry. He was a very brave man and hero. The movie they made about him was awesome.If you've heard of Gary Webb, he's the "suicided" journalist who exposed the CIA selling crack to the inner cities during the 80's
Gary Webb on the CIA's Role in the 1980s LA Crack Epidemic - Citizen Truth
An explosive report from a relatively unknown journalist, Gary Webb, claimed the CIA helped foster the crack epidemic that ravaged Los Angeles in the 1980s.
The United States did fine without taxes until 1913.
This is exactly right.
