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  • Pons_Aelius
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    331 year ago

    what have the Romans Taxes ever done for us?

    All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans taxes ever done for us?

    • @seaQueue@lemmy.world
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      141 year ago

      I love how people just up and forget about all of the infrastructure that makes their lives possible every single time they ask this question.

      • Pons_Aelius
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        1 year ago

        People complaining about taxes have rarely spent time in a place where zero taxation is the actual reality.

        Don’t want to pay taxes?

        Cool, move to North Sentinel island, there are zero taxes there.

        Libertarians usually want all the benefits of a functioning society without the pesky inconvenience of having to pay for it.

      • @burliman@lemm.ee
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        11 year ago

        People complaining about taxes have a right to do so. It’s perhaps the only reason we don’t have historically high taxes like we did around WWII. And if you’re European, your tax to GDP ratio is completely terrible and much higher than American rates. Then again Americans have to pay for their health insurance separately, so there’s that.

    • @catsup
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      11 year ago

      All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, …

      Your government gives you wine?? 🍷🍷

      Where do you live?