I like the idea of paying taxes, I just hate that I'm paying a larger percentage of my "wealth" than someone whose net worth is several orders of magnitude more.
The other side of that is when I see someone using a service that my tax dollars are paying for I feel pretty good.
Here is a longer excerpt from the opinion by Holmes:1
It is true, as indicated in the last cited case, that every exaction of money for an act is a discouragement to the extent of the payment required, but that which in its immediacy is a discouragement may be part of an encouragement when seen in its organic connection with the whole. Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, including the chance to insure.
insurance companies pulling out of residential markets in disaster zones tells you all you need to know. not even to mention the healthcare, legal, regime change, academic, media/entertainment, or agricultural “industries” (criminal enterprises) we are all dependent upon for our daily lives (in modern lifestyle fashion), with no hope in sight for general public welfare driven reforms ever being applied to any such structures which uphold and propagate the duplicity and dominion of “capitalism” (coordinated synchronous sociopathic liquidation of universal good-faith towards maximum capture of select-minority-control over long term future prospects of any and all valuable forms)
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taco_daemon@lemmy.zip · 43 pts · 178d
i unironically love paying my taxes (free quality (mostly) healthcare go brrrr)
NeedyPlatter@lemmy.ca · 34 pts · 178d
^ I also love my public libraries and schools too
taco_daemon@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 178d
and funding science research!!
not so fond of military/police spending tho
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 178d
I also love supporting art and artists who produce all kinds of amazing entertainment.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 178d
I like the idea of paying taxes, I just hate that I'm paying a larger percentage of my "wealth" than someone whose net worth is several orders of magnitude more.
The other side of that is when I see someone using a service that my tax dollars are paying for I feel pretty good.
taco_daemon@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 177d
yeah that sucks, time to bring out the gullotine
GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca · 24 pts · 178d
Here's a quote I stumbled across a couple decades ago.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 178d
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 177d
No representation, no taxation. I don't see no representation, do you?
SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space · 2 pts · 175d
insurance companies pulling out of residential markets in disaster zones tells you all you need to know. not even to mention the healthcare, legal, regime change, academic, media/entertainment, or agricultural “industries” (criminal enterprises) we are all dependent upon for our daily lives (in modern lifestyle fashion), with no hope in sight for general public welfare driven reforms ever being applied to any such structures which uphold and propagate the duplicity and dominion of “capitalism” (coordinated synchronous sociopathic liquidation of universal good-faith towards maximum capture of select-minority-control over long term future prospects of any and all valuable forms)
MTZ@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 178d
I enjoyed Civ 5 but I never played the other ones except the OG. I trust that 2 - 4 and any ones they have released since 5 are decent as well.
Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 178d
I've played 4,5,6 and 7, and I've enjoyed all of those.
MoffKalast@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 177d
Feels like my taxes used to buy a lot more civilization back in the day.
Honytawk@feddit.nl · 10 pts · 178d
My body is a temple.
Only the highest quality of cocaine.
MTZ@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 178d
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 178d
OK but where did you get this photo of me
CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 177d
Is your body too contains couple dozen people inside each weekend?
yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 177d
It's easier if you're a Catholic church. Children take less space and you're already experienced being into them.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 2 pts · 177d
My body is a temple
hands you a collection plate
Honytawk@feddit.nl · -1 pts · 178d
My body is a temple.
Only the highest quality of cocaine.