> Government agencies that spend massive amounts of tax dollars while accomplishing nothing and being net-negative for society. Anyone who has worked for or dealt with the government for extended periods of time will clearly know how fucked it is

This is only true of republican governments. Republican-led governments are truly appalling in their spending, and wasteful tax cuts. Democrat governments are far far more efficient, effective, and work for the people.

An example of this is one beautiful bill which literally increased deficits while giving nothing of value to people but the biden-led inflation reduction act literally created new energy infrastructure without increasing deficit.

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SV_BubbleTime 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> This is only true of republican governments. Republican-led governments are truly appalling in their spending, and wasteful tax cuts. Democrat governments are far far more efficient, effective, and work for the people.

A true believer, neat.

	▲	const_cast 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		BBB is the most recent example of this. We cut spending across the board, shit on American, and in exchange we... raised the deficit by Trillions of dollars? What? How? Republican fiscal policy.

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monero-xmr 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Letting people keep more of the money they earned through productive work is how we increase wealth. Taxes are literally a friction on the economy - we remove funds from productive entities every time they transact, retarding economic activity. The funds then are redirected to a sclerotic and uncaring state, and then the productive people are shamed when they ask for less of it to be taken.

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tsimionescu 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You know so little about how the world actually works that it's funny you even try to speak about it.

Society would literally cease to function if the government stopped providing the services that your "friction" funds. Roads, the court system, police, waste and water, defense - these barely scratch the surface of what the US government provides, and yet remove any one of them and it would be enough to bring down the entire economy.

	▲	monero-xmr 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The us government should only provide a system for contract resolution, police, and defense. I can’t think of a single other thing the government should do

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nine_zeros 15 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> The funds then are redirected to a sclerotic and uncaring state, and then the productive people are shamed when they ask for less of it to be taken.

In republican governments, yes this is real.

In democrat governments, the vast majority of taxes goes into productive issues such as education, transportation, and healthcare. Even the type of bills passed by democrats are friendly towards building a society.

Now, YOU may not want to pay for other's education, transportation, and healthcare. But a lot of people appreciate that access to high quality is not merely limited to the wealthy. This is why you'll see amazing companies in blue states vs red, you'll see amazing companies starting during blue federal governments vs red.

The data is very clear on what produces great outcomes for society. You might not want others to get a decent life but you need to admit your selfishness.

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mcphage 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Letting people keep more of the money they earned through productive work is how we increase wealth.

This isn’t even remotely true.