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Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts

  • Offline MalabarJag
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05-27-2018, 09:47 AM

(05-27-2018, 07:16 AM)mikesez Wrote:
(05-26-2018, 11:00 PM)Byron LeftTown Wrote: Minimal government is the ideal.  If you have too much, people start believing government should do things for them or give things to them.  They start using government as a club against others.  Then it just devolves into a battle to see who holds the club.

Now there is, at least, a view that is internally consistent. I suppose that prosecuting rapists and murderers is one of the very "minimum" functions of government, right? I mean I already asked you this once you gave me a lecture about protecting my own family rather than answering my question.
Obviously this minimum amount of government would need a minimum amount of funding. Why would a tax on head of cattle be any worse than any other tax, assuming that the total of all taxes was minimal as you seem to want?

Because it's a case of the government picking and choosing who to tax. This is what breeds cronyism, where people pay politicians to favor their businesses at the expense of others. And by taxing just one item (or some items) in a spectrum of choices there's also a hit on the freedom to choose which item to purchase. If you are taxing food in general these would not be a problem. There would be another problem because any tax on food would hit the working poor the hardest, but that's a different matter.

Government does need to exist in spite of the loss of freedom it creates, but the current government has gone far beyond what's needed. Here's how you decide what power the government should have. Pass a law only if you think it's reasonable to enforce it by holding a gun to someone's head.



                                                                          

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Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by The Drifter - 05-22-2018, 03:37 PM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by mikesez - 05-23-2018, 08:49 AM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by mikesez - 05-23-2018, 12:05 PM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by mikesez - 05-24-2018, 11:31 AM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by mikesez - 05-24-2018, 06:53 PM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by mikesez - 05-25-2018, 12:45 PM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by mikesez - 05-25-2018, 05:56 PM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by mikesez - 05-25-2018, 08:08 PM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by mikesez - 05-25-2018, 05:25 PM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by mikesez - 05-23-2018, 09:56 AM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by mikesez - 05-26-2018, 09:35 AM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by mikesez - 05-26-2018, 02:02 PM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by mikesez - 05-26-2018, 04:11 PM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by mikesez - 05-26-2018, 08:37 PM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by copycat - 05-26-2018, 09:15 PM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by mikesez - 05-26-2018, 09:45 PM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by mikesez - 05-26-2018, 10:31 PM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by copycat - 05-26-2018, 08:00 PM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by mikesez - 05-27-2018, 07:16 AM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by mikesez - 05-27-2018, 09:50 AM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by MalabarJag - 05-27-2018, 09:47 AM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by mikesez - 05-27-2018, 11:31 AM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by mikesez - 05-27-2018, 01:41 PM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by jj82284 - 05-27-2018, 01:44 PM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by mikesez - 05-27-2018, 03:46 PM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by jj82284 - 05-27-2018, 04:52 PM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by mikesez - 05-27-2018, 06:09 PM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by jj82284 - 05-28-2018, 08:14 AM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by mikesez - 05-28-2018, 10:23 AM
RE: Bill Nye Wants to Tax Cow Farts - by jj82284 - 05-28-2018, 01:38 PM



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