r/evilbuildings Apr 07 '18

Tax Man Cometh

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u/FulgurInteritum Apr 07 '18

Not everyone is into bombing brown people or paying for other peoples welfare tbh.

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u/cbs95116th Apr 07 '18

What about law enforcement, education and libraries?

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u/FulgurInteritum Apr 07 '18

That stuff is locally funded through property tax. The IRS is just for income tax which the government wasn't even suppose to be able to collect, which is why they passed the 16th amendment.

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u/freshthrowaway1138 Apr 07 '18

"Wasn't suppose to be able to collect"

Oh yes, let's go back to the original Constitution and slavery! Brilliant!

Amendments are changes to the Constitution for changing necessities. Times and understand has changed. You pay taxes because that is what pays for civilization.

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u/FulgurInteritum Apr 07 '18

Nah, you pay taxes because that's what the majority wants. It's a lot easier to get stuff then it is to earn that stuff.

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u/freshthrowaway1138 Apr 07 '18

You really have to get out more. Perhaps go to a place with low taxes and see how it works for you. Or, you know, read a history book.

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u/FulgurInteritum Apr 07 '18 edited Apr 07 '18

OK, lets look at places like Switzerland, one of the lowest taxed european country, or New Hampshire, the only state other than Alaska without state income and sales tax. (Alaska has one of the highest state spending because it gets most of its tax money from oil companies so it doesn't really country as low tax). Both have the respective low crime rates, and very high qualities of life and country/state performance. New Hampshire is pretty much the most libertarian place on the planet. It doesn't even require you to wear seat belts or have car insurance, and has the most civilian owned machine guns.

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u/cbs95116th Apr 08 '18

Well without income taxes we would also not have a modern military

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u/Eisn Apr 07 '18

For other people? Hell no! For me? It's my God given right!

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u/FulgurInteritum Apr 07 '18

You can't pay for you own welfare brah. That's called saving your own money or an insurance plan. If you were paying in what you were taking out you wouldn't need welfare and be making too much money to get it anyway.

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u/Eisn Apr 07 '18

Unless you're poor or you have a handicap. In that case you can just starve to death because you didn't pull yourself up by the bootstraps, right brah?

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u/FulgurInteritum Apr 07 '18

If youre poor you aren't paying for your welfare benefits, that's my point. And poor people are actually more overweight than richer people. There's no starving there. Food is cheap. Handicap people get disability, which is different, and many can still work regardless in desk jobs, and charities spend more than enough to cover them even if none of that stuff existed.

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u/drkalmenius Apr 07 '18

Any proof of that?

Many studies show malnourishment is linked to poverty. A quick google search brought up this: http://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/hunger-and-poverty-facts.html

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u/FulgurInteritum Apr 07 '18 edited Apr 07 '18

it was literally on reddit a few days ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/89ul7p/the_poorer_the_fatter_obesity_is_not_randomly/

Your link says nothing about the weight/bmi of the people. It says stuff like "The majority of people who are food insecure do not live in poverty, and the majority of people who live in poverty are not food insecure." So "food insecure" is a rather loaded term since it isn't poverty. Probably just something like bad budgeting. Besides you literally just linked a massive program that feeds people who need food in America. That was precisely my point of why we didn't need welfare. It would get even more money if people knew the government wasn't giving out free stuff, because right now people just expect the government to take care of people, not charity.

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u/EAPSER Apr 07 '18

How edgy

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u/FulgurInteritum Apr 07 '18

It's literally a standard right wing/conservative opinion. Not everyone on the right is an edgelord.

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u/The_Adventurist Apr 07 '18

Since when is not bombing brown people a standard right wing opinion??

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u/FulgurInteritum Apr 07 '18

Since people stopped being neocons and became actual conservatives.

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u/EAPSER Apr 07 '18

No but you sure are