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Thats why I vote that way lol. I'm going to be completely honest.
I'm somewhat looking at it as likely as a small business owner. The garage as I said has 2 other mechanics both of which are going to retire and one of which is my grandfather who owns it.
The moment someone says they want 60% of my income I'm working to profit you not me and I'm going Galt to get under your tax bracket and I won't make a dime more.
I don't terribly mind our tax system because I only have to pay 28%. As much as I would like to pay only 15% thats not ever going to happen.
Jacob you said somethings aren't able to be funded by the private sector. Our military is very streamlined as far as how it manages cost effectiveness. Its one of the few branches that effectively spends its money rather than throwing it down the toilet. And honestly do you want them cutting money from the system that protects you or from the system that allows people to sit around and do nothing?
If I could I would remove 66% of the budget and fund just the military(since police are locally funded and truly private toll roads would be much better than government designed ones). My justification for private highways is the DOT continues to build roads that are I think 6 inch deep whereas Germany has proved that an 18 inch deep roadway doesn't even come close to breaking apart as badly as ours do. Its also possible to manufacture bridges to far superior deisgn(the Romans did it 2000 years ago and I've driven across them in a car). If a private sector had to make a road its like a nuclear power plant, its very expensive up front and it takes a good bit of time to pay for it, but after that its dirt cheap. they would just make the roads much thicker to resist wear completely(trucks create the wear primarily because their bouncing on their suspension compacts the roadways unevenly and typically right after bridge connections) and they would design the bridges to spec so that we don't ever look at them again for 400 years.
Under government spec I've seen my local roadways paved and re-paved in the last 10 years due to wear. Parts of the autobahn haven't been repaired since they were first laid over half a century ago.
Social security is a ponzi scheme. Its not an investment. I have several relatives now drawing social and they are going to draw far more than they ever put in even with inflation and whatever else.
If you fired all the bureacrats, didn't pay all the politicians and just made the tax code simple(and fired all IRS agents) you would be taking one huge leap towards reducing deficits. If you then took another leap and cut any form of social safety net systems and only left in place military spending the private sector could do everything else more cheaply. If there are companies making a profit by streamlining road and bridge construction that is far superior than having to pay a toll(tax) and it being higher. I've had friends deal with trying to use medicare. . .it takes forever and requires unbelievable amounts of work. Private insurance, i give them my card the make a copy and bill them and I'm done. It costs less per individual than medicare does, by a long shot.
If you reduced all taxes 66% and cut everything but the military then everyone has a big new window and can make a profit much easier and are able to sell their products for less.
I know not everyone will do it. . .but some will. Some things in effect will cost the same whether its a tax or a toll, but I would bank on the service always being superior(go to a DMV). In some cases though(maybe in alot of cases) the toll would be less than the tax and the service would still be superior.
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