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    Municipalities are creatures of statute, empowered by the legislature. The Local Government Act 1989 is what empowers...
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    Yes, you can avoid it. But why should you?Why should you allow the money to go only to those who deserve it least?The...
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    Reminds me of charities scams that campaign for money without accomplishing anything useful. I mean, sure, you need...
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    My brain has this ethical æsthetic. Taking government money feels disgusting, filthy and impure, the same way I’d expect...
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    Ah! Makes a ton of sense. However, it is really lousy for showing one’s displeasure with an arrangement. Proving one can...
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    From a practical level one may oppose it even if it currently benefits them because it will lead to a framework that...
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    They benefit relative to not using the service but still paying the taxes, but not relative to neither the tax nor the...
  20. rangi42 said: Arguably, all their potential donors can no longer afford to donate because the government took the money as tax. This would require a convenient alignment of exact dollar amounts, but I think I agree with the overall point: the market is so distorted by the government that you can’t just act like taxes don’t exist.
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    But the market won’t always provide a better option if the government’s present in an area, even if you think there...
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  26. tooth-and-nails said: I think it’s a case of “I’ve paid taxes all my life so I’m only taking out what I put in” which is blatantly false in downplaying how much they take and aggrandising how much they put in when really they jump through every tax loophole they can
  27. xhxhxhx said: a person who takes welfare or took welfare would be a more convincing political opponent of welfare than someone who didn’t
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  29. xhxhxhx said: it’s a statement against interest, which suggests he would only have said it if he believed it to be true