What services would you be willing to give up for no taxes at all?

Question

It seems to me that the biggest thorn in a conservative's side is the thought of paying taxes...period. If all the services that the government provides were privatized, would you be willing to pay the price? Government is expensive, this is true, but they do not set out to make a 'profit' such as private business does. How long would it take before you could not afford the services that we too often take for granted?

truthsfifth.....being a white-collar all of your life you could never possibly understand the blue collar level. Those "union wages" you complained about comes down to this in a nutshell....you pay for what you get! Cheap labor, cutting corners to complete the "job" while making a huge profit for the upper management/ceo/shareholders who sit on their *** and use only their mental capacity. Should non-physical work pay more than hard physical work??

Answer 1

Many services are completely unnecessary, such as welfare.
People should not be taught to depend on the government for family income.

Answer 2

If America had no taxes, our Government would not be as it is now. Giving up services that the Government provides threw taxes is a tough question to answer. No one with a pinch of empathy wants to give up Domestic Social programs that help the needy of America. Our Government has so many programs that provide services, they are legion. I would be tempted to say, I would be willing to give up this Government altogether and form a new one that is organized threw an updated computerized system that could eliminate duplicate programs and wasteful overspending. Running the Country for profit sounds like a bad idea, if you don't consider that the business,is America, This Government should be selling only to benefit the stockholders, which are the American people. Sorry that I couldn't say what I'd give up.

Answer 3

Roads to nowhere, corporate welfare INCLUDING r+d grants to the biggest, most profitable corporations, weapons systems that DoD says they will not use but that are made by companies that employ people in powerful Senators' states........

Sorry, but the proportion of federal spending that actually goes to services that we all use is tiny. It's almost all boondoggle.

That's why the "roads and bridges" argument fails. It's NOT a question of people who want roads and bridges but don't want to pay for them. We don't want to pay 12 times what it should cost to maintain roads and bridges because there are roads to nowhere, because "environmental impact" studies have to be completed to make sure some bug species won't have to migrate 100 yards because you widened a highway, and because the highway department makes its contractors pay "union wages" that are 5-6 times what the workers would make if they were putting up a parking garage at the mall.

And the thing about invididual welfare is, even before you get to whether I should have to support total strangers, MOST of those total strangers are out of work, right? Well here's how welfare works - you take a dollar from me, funnel it through a bureaucracy that employs government hacks who got the job because they got 4-5 of their buddies to work the 'get out the vote' phones for their Congressman, and give 25 cents on the dollar to some poor slob who lost his job on the third shift at the Timken ball bearings plant. Well if you hadn't taken the money from me, I'd have spent it or invested it and Timken would still have a third shift!!!!!!!

We HAD this debate back in '80 and my side has been proven right - unemployment is half of what it was then - - - - and inflation is 1/3 what it was because to the extent we had any growth back then it was artificially propped up by the Fed, because the economy couldn't reinvest its own earnings to produce natural growth because most of those earnings were being taxed away.

Answer 4

Roads, water supply, product safety and quality assurance, veterans' services, air traffic control, border security, sewage infrastructure, armed forces and electricity.

And that's just for starters. I'd be willing to do without a LOT more, too.

I know with the twenty thousand dollars a year I'd save by not paying any tax I would be in an ideal position to fund those things for myself, as I need them!

Answer 5

What services? All of them!!! Besides there are tons of sales taxes and duties that pay for the things we want. The Income Tax (theft tax) just allows the government to borrow money from the private banks

Answer 6

If courier deliver via any government indrusty then will provider fee Calculate, yet any private employer then you definately won't comprehend approximately provider fee because of the fact Courier employer collect totaly expenditures withount giving information approximately provider expenditures they taken courier expenditures quantity , Do they deposite provider fee or not , It information donot accessible shopper. (Harinder Gupt)

Answer 7

Little red x you are pathetic. Your hate blinds you to common sense. YOU pay for the roads you drive on, police protection, fire departments. YOU pay all the funding for schools do you? Damn, are you Bill Gates? YOU have your own military?

Answer 8

I'd be willing to give up health care.. Oh wait a minute, the US doesn't provide health care to it's citizens like all other countries.

Answer 9

Thats Just it. I dont USE service. I support myself and my family with MY OWN MONEY. Its called personal responsibility