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Originally Posted by djugurba
Do you breathe fresh air, walk or drive on a street, live somewhere without rampant infectious disease, not have to fend off roving bands of thieves (or invading pirates), etc? You can't not consume nothing. The conditions which our nation cultivates to lengthen your lifespan require taxation independent of your consumption.
So, every road a toll road? Metered ventilators on every citizen? Hmm?
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Wow. I guess we struck a nerve, didn't we? If as you argue, one cannot consume nothing, then one cannot pay no taxes (how's that for convoluted negatives?). In other words, if you live and breath then you will pay taxes. A consumption tax merely adjusts taxation to the greatest consumptive footprint. Isn't that a good thing?
I'm not a fanatic about taxation, I simply think that where practical, use taxes are more fair than general taxes.
I like toll roads where practical like closed access highways, but fuel taxes could easily cover the funding of all roads -- if you don't consume fuel the chances are your contribution to roadway degradation is negligible. If you consume 100 gal/day then the chances are that your contribution to roadway degradation is something greater than negligible.