Garbage answers encouraged.
A whole-ass functioning society
A slightly misplaced hyphen and this is a very different sentence.
Well if the taxes are misused, stolen, otherwise not finding their way to where they should be, the sentence remains true
https://xkcd.com/37/
https://m.xkcd.com/37/ (mobile version)
When you pay enough and have the right government, a society.
- free tuition
- free or at least affordable healthcare
- social security
- physical security
- transportation
Without it, our country (the Netherlands) would be a lot smaller, as most of it would be below sea level. It still is, but the dykes, which are build and maintained via taxes, keep the sea at bay. No roads to travel on, no military to defend the country, no healthcare that is affordable for all and no food on the table for the unemployed.
When your taxes are spent well, it’s a great return on investment. (My income for one ;) ) However, when the government is mostly corporate owned, the return is a lot less.
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Services from the government.
“All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?”
eh… nothing? I thought that was clear lmao
A squad of burly goons with a tank and helicopter dont break your body in half (by default)
bossed around.
Universal healthcare, free operations, cheap medication
Garbage answer:
Garbage collection and general management. It’s nice that we don’t dump our waste outside our homes anymore.
Sewers. Ever visited an outhouse in a place where it’s 0 degrees out? yOw!
Or carried two pails of water 2 blocks, twice, to start heating it while you did it 3 more times for the rest of your bath? Lots of people still do that.
If all we paid for were sewers, our taxes would be almost nothing per person. Plus I pay for sewers outside of taxes anyway. It’s built into the water bill.
At 0 degrees no. Have at 35 degrees in AU.
The worst thing we get in return for paying taxes is constant whining from right-wingers (i.e. libertarians).
allegedly? services.
realistically? fuckall
Your public education
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politicians.
