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6/6/2014 2:24:16 PM
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Would you prefer to choose where your taxes went?
Just a general hypothetical here, if you could choose exactly which governmental department or institute got your taxes, where would you choose to send them?
Often I hear people in Britain complain about how "My taxes are paying for benefit cheats and immigrants" or "These roads are terrible, where do my taxes go?" and all that nonsensical jazz. So I thought why couldn't we choose where our taxes went?
Obviously if you could see potential problems with that, go ahead and give criticism or better solutions, it would be interesting to see what the Flood thinks. If you don't pay taxes, vote anyway.
[b]TL;DR[/b] [i]Where would you want you taxes to go to (if you had to pay)?[/i]
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由Bistromathics编辑： 6/6/2014 10:16:20 PMI and most other people don't know enough about the issues or how to fund programs that can solve them. Even when we do, there's no guarantee that a large group can be rational enough to fund the things that need money. In theory, this is why we have representatives: they're motivated and intelligent individuals who are going to make it their jobs to become educated and act on our behalf. In practice, that doesn't always work out.
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The only issue with choosing were are taxes go is that certain things won't be spent on as much as other things. For example if you look at the votes above you can see that research is voted on more than anything else and transportation is voted on the least. Giving us bad roads, bus services, side walks, rail roads, sub ways, and so on. While we have good medicine and heath care, technology, and space research. It's a difficult topic but really either way you look at it we'll still be annoyed and still be complaining about this tax topic.
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2 回复Since most of Ontario (Canada) is fine (Construction for buses and sewage is fine along with defence and we have free healthcare) I would have to say Research to find new energy resources.
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3 回复Education, Healthcare, Management, and Research. I can't decide on just one, so I'd like to have it evenly distributed between these four.
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1 回复由DeclinedA01编辑： 6/6/2014 4:13:08 PMThe government's primary purpose is national security. It's conceivable that the other could exist without a government. For example, if a bunch of people wanted a road, those people can pay to have someone build it. However, I have no incentive to build a missile defense system for some guy in another state. All those categories are important, however.
