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To: RedStateRocker
Taxes have always been a vehicle for shaping behavior.

Using the government's deadly force for social engineering belongs in a marxist hellhole, not in these United States. The only proper, moral, function of taxes is to raise the revenue necessary to fund the legitimate (in the US, constitutional) functions of government. Anything else is theft and oppression.

13 posted on 05/14/2019 7:13:43 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

Agree that in a perfect world that would be the case. But governments since the invention of same have used taxes to discourage behaviors they don’t like. It didn’t take an enlightenment economist to figure out that if you tax something you often get less of it, if you subsidize something you often get more of it (black markets aside)...


20 posted on 05/15/2019 8:16:12 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca. Deport all illegals. Abolish the DEA, IRS and ATF,.)
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