• Skeezix@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Hey guess what, today is educate a libertarian day.

    The money don’t come out of thin air. Your property taxes are highest in the nation, you have extra business taxes, extra fuel taxes, and specific targeted fees that make up for it.

    • yodeljunkmanenvy [freestater.org]@piefed.socialOP
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      1 month ago

      You got me! 🙂

      • Yes, our property taxes are kind of high. There is legislation proposed this year to cap them at inflation.
      • I don’t think our Business Enterprise (payroll) tax is that high, but there is also a rollback planned for this year, from 0.55% to 0.50%.
      • We receive our share of federal gas tax, and we have tolls on the major highways which generate money for road repairs. That’s more of a user fee than a tax, which is much better!

      All of that still doesn’t change the fact that our workers take home 100% of their pay (from the state at least)! 🙂

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        That’s more of a user fee than a tax, which is much better!

        Is it though? It prices people out of things. Eventually yourself included

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            1 month ago

            Oh but its not, because people who may require said service may not have the means to use it. That’s what being a part of a society is about.

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    Wow, what a terrible idea, so. It means no safety net for people, not even for those lucky strikes that send you 1 week ICU.

    Also it means that the goverment can not act like the last resource insurance or just distribute the risk to all the population for risk wide county, effectively reducing the quota at the same time that nobody is left behind.

    Also not future planning or things with long return investment…

    What more could go wrong?

  • SEND_BUTTPLUG_PICS@lemmy.zip
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    Their motto is “Live Free or Die” but weed is still illegal. Also, sure they have no income tax but their property tax is insane.