I can understand the argument in favor of protecting public health, and having a price per gallon that is not dependent on other citizens' tax dollars. It's a perfectly lucid argument that petrol is not the kind of product that is done at the purchasing phase.
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Originally Posted by brucepick
Personally, I don't have a problem with taxes, as long as we don't have "taxation without representation". In this country, we citizens "own" the government. We are responsible for it, and we fund it. I think a lot of us have to get over the idea that anything the govt does that we personally didn't ask for or benefit from is waste. That's just being selfish.
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I can see what you mean, this is one of the inconveniences associated with representative democracies. We pay for roads, bridges etc. even those who don't use them frequently or at all. I'm not saying it's fair, but it's true.
At the same time, I'm very weary of majority rule. Group-think can lead people to make decisions without thinking, and sometimes the majority is wrong.