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Tax and governments?

caseyann · 2011-01-08 16:29:47

Just wanted to bring up something of interest. If we removed all taxes Barr ofc motor tax and tv licence rubbish and removed all government and had independent people take care of roads,And judges take care of laws etc.. how would the world fair up. Where did the right to tax a farmer for working his farm and a worker in…

08-01-2011 4:29pm

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caseyann

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Just wanted to bring up something of interest.
If we removed all taxes Barr ofc motor tax and tv licence rubbish and removed all government and had independent people take care of roads,And judges take care of laws etc.. how would the world fair up.
Where did the right to tax a farmer for working his farm and a worker in an office for working in their office etc.. come from.

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#2 08-01-2011 4:36pm

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You still need people to run hospitals, schools, the courts and the prisons, a support staff if you will, lets call them 'the civil service' and elected representatives to decide policy issues in relation to the service and how maintenance funds (we'll call them taxes) are raised lets call them 'the government'.

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