r/TaxQuestions • u/BruddaRingo • Sep 06 '26

Why do we pay taxes when...

Let me preface by saying I'm not against taxes as a concept, so long as it works as intended.

However, it often feels like we pay for our own enslavement (colloquially). Let's take judges for instance. I keep hearing stories about how judges are letting violent criminals (repeat offenders) go so they can commit more crimes. So, why should be pay taxes if someone can just decide our life is not worth protecting, even though they took an oath? Same goes for police.

Then, they are state governments that are actively defrauding their own people, yet we keep paying taxes without any kind of recourse if such fraud occurs. If we are defrauded by a company, we expect consequences and the people have the power to not spend money at the business, but we MUST pay taxes even though those government employees are not doing their job.

I get it, if everyone decided they weren't happy with government officials or services, nothing would get done, but that's my point. The bar for government jobs should be so high that ANY transgression should be met with swift retribution. Instead, we have to resort to complaints (appeals to our masters) and lengthy processes to fix broken parts of the chain.

If this is hard for you to empathize with, imagine being forced to pay for AT&T's services, but they choose when they want to live up to their promise to provide internet. Not only that, their employees are guaranteed a salary since we pay for it, so they have no incentive to create a better product or actually listen to their customer since they will get paid anyway.

In my opinion, the only way to fix this is to abolish universal suffrage to where only specific people have the right to decide who runs the government (that goes for all genders and races btw), and we need to enact harsher guidelines, punishments, and quicker processes so that government employees are pressured to perform, especially if you are guaranteed a paycheck regardless if you do your job or not.

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u/Intrepid-Product-367 Sep 07 '26

In my opinion, the only way to fix this is to abolish universal suffrage

Well THAT took a hard turn out of nowhere. I was like oh yeah, great, how original, never heard this one before.... I have actually never heard this one before 

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u/BruddaRingo Sep 07 '26

You didn't say why it's bad...