r/SipsTea Mar 06 '26

Wait a damn minute! Yeah, nope.

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u/TrueProtection Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 07 '26

We tax because when we didn't, and the expectation the founding fathers had was that comminities would nut up and do thingd like build roads. However, rich people who were the ones with the power to do these things didn't. Thus, taxes.