Message from @Campin' Carl
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infrastructure is important, I don't know anyone that does it well TBH
albert speer was good at that wasnt he?
At the end of the day, you've got to tax someone and it should only be tax to you if you use the facility or item.
I am 100% in favor of use fees
what are they then
roads are the biggest example of where pragmatism gets in the way of that
but most things could be more effectively funded through use fees rather than taxes
@Campin' Carl why did austraila move away from the free internal markets/protected trade engagements arrangement?
commies?
yeah
figures
we had em right up till the 90s
defense is one of the few areas of goverment expenditure that can be justified
regardless of who pays in, everyone inside a state's borders benefits from the spending, and it's not realistic to exclude those who don't pay in from benefitting
could you spell defence properly
no
rrreeee
you'll be alright
this cunt got rid of our protectionist policies
figures
then y'all bought into the f-35
that was abbott i think
yea it was later
he started the downhill slide
should have bought f/a-18 super hornets TBH
we should buy an aircraft carrier or 2 first
or just make them
Free markets is a libertarian idea and it's impossible to recreate. At the end of the day someone has to pay someone to do something and I'd rather not have to deal with the logistical nightmare of community funding micro financial departments.
Especially if you live in cities or suburbs.
Also who pays for defense? Who pays for military? who pays for people to do these micro treasuries?
Who pays for these things?
GST?
so you're into wasting incomprehensibly large amounts of people's money
got it
did you not read what I just wrote? I said defense is one of the few justifiable government expenditures
because you can't exclude those who don't pay from the service
bureaucracy increases the cost of things too you know
No, I'm not... But who will do this stuff for free? Who will have the time?
NASA had a lot of trouble with that you know
some of their nuts and bolts were costing $500 per piece
10 times the cost of it commercially
i think there should be a national defence force paid for via taxes
but theres gotta be a certain amount of cooperation betweet government and businesses