If there were no taxes, democracy would not exist..plain and simple

[Peacetrain]

If we did not have taxes.. Democracy would not exist on any level.

No I am not even talking about paying for roads, schools, sewer systems etc.. all the things that make life livable.

No one would have anything.. we would all be peasant rabble begging for the scraps at the table of the land owners.

And the land owners could pass their land down generation after generation.. whether someone could do anything with it or not.. would be immaterial..

What would be the incentive of selling a piece of land that great grandpa had to some other owner of land.. because there would be few and far between..All property would be tied up in perpetuity.

Would there be skyscrapers or cities.. who knows.. but there would be a landless, business less (hey you can't build a buisness on someone elses' property) class homeless.. depending on the good graces of property owners

Taxes are what force people to turn over property..to buy other things..etc etc.

Think about the Grover Norquist.. and all those who sign on to no taxes ever letters.

[Brewman_Jax]

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.

[Peacetrain]

(05-04-2012 01:26 PM)Brewman_Jax Wrote:  Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.

Ah yep!..

[KonaKane]

"Taxes are the bill for democracy"

- Prof. Jeff Lowen

[PoliticalTiger]

I was in traffic the other day and the car ahead of me had a Ron Paul sticker and I was thinking don't these people understand that if Paul was to become president, which is never going to happen, but if he did and managed to shift all the burden to the states, don't they realize the states are going to have to raise taxes to amounts never ever imagined just to pay for services we depend on, such as that road we were traveling on?

[SeattleGirl]

(05-04-2012 10:31 PM)PoliticalTiger Wrote:  I was in traffic the other day and the car ahead of me had a Ron Paul sticker and I was thinking don't these people understand that if Paul was to become president, which is never going to happen, but if he did and managed to shift all the burden to the states, don't they realize the states are going to have to raise taxes to amounts never ever imagined just to pay for services we depend on, such as that road we were traveling on?

Answer: No, they never do.

[Ikonoklast]

(05-04-2012 10:31 PM)PoliticalTiger Wrote:  I was in traffic the other day and the car ahead of me had a Ron Paul sticker and I was thinking don't these people understand that if Paul was to become president, which is never going to happen, but if he did and managed to shift all the burden to the states, don't they realize the states are going to have to raise taxes to amounts never ever imagined just to pay for services we depend on, such as that road we were traveling on?

They would certainly get a front-row seat to the states raising revenue by tolling every single highway, as there would be no one to stop them from doing so if the State's Rights morons got their way.