• robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      ok but public transit in a town is gonna be funded by some grants probably and then operated on rider fees and local taxes. Gary Indiana isn’t sovereign and Mississippi can’t afford shit.

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          that failure of the federal government has nothing to do with what i was talking about.

          on a local level the local taxes we all pay are directly in the budget for that spending. we literally vote on 0.025% property tax increases to pay for specific local projects.

          “taxes do not fund government spending” is literally false for entities that don’t control the currency or those resources.

          • moujikman [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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            Modern Monetary Theory. From an purely economic perspective, SimulatedLiberalism is right.

            Think of taxes as an olympic sized swimming pool, a politician may say they are raising taxes to dump a new bucket of water into the pool, but some guy comes around once a month to drain or fill the pool so it always stays level.

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      Even if what you say is true, telling people tax funds the government/public infrastructure incentives people to pay tax. If you go around telling people “I’m taxing you because I can, and the tax will be used to fund my vacation to Dubai” you’re gonna get shit on