Thanks for breaking it down for me EJR, i dont dissagree with anything you wrote i was more or less trying to see if your view carried all the way over or if it was just directly related to foreign aid. I will say though that if a person decided to pay no taxes and it was a legal choice theyd better have a shit ton of land because simply driving down a road off their property would be deemed tresspassing in tax payers eyes and essentially theyd become illegal aliens any where but on their own land. Theyd be arrested for stealing from tax payers. So really even in small government your choices are pay the flat rate or percentage based on your income or be banned from america. So wether it be social or government influenced your average american still MUST pay taxes to enjoy a modern america.
Not necessarily, it could be that way on certain interstate highways, and county roads, but I guess the tax payers could make that a law or something, but it isn't even that way NOW. The bums that have never paid income tax in their life still use all of our government facilities and get government entitlements and they damn sure use our tax-money paid for roads all the time, we don't kick them out just because they've never paid any income tax, and I don't see where that would change if the income tax was moved back to being mandatory. I'm guessing the reason you think like that is only because of the way it was first chosen by the gov't to be set up that way, which was to have ANOTHER mandatory tax, some income, and some is 50% of every gallon of gas you buy is tax that goes to the government. Also, it would have NOTHING to do with citizenship, that would all stay the same, I don't know why you think that paying taxes is somehow linked to citizenship, it isn't and it wasn't for the first 200 plus years that Americans lived in this country as American citizens. I'm not sure I follow you with that. If paying the tax was mandatory for all American citizens, like the income tax was supposed to be, then I don't see how not paying the tax would mean you were not a citizen anymore. You lost me there. I'm confused.
I'm sure you've heard of toll roads, well if the government would have been more freedom minded, it would have just left the setting up EVERY road as a TOLL road (so it would start off as a dirt road) and they would begin to pave the road as the money came in) TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR, (OR by selling bonds and stocks just like how ANY private company gets investors, and the investors could be people that saw the profit or the need for the road to go through a certain area) or who would use it the most. Private companies can actually build roads using tolls, or issuing stocks to investors, MUCH CHEAPER, MORE EFFICIENTLY, FASTER without tons of bureaucratic financial WASTE than can the government, (because if the forced tax money is given to politicians they just squander the saved up money in the first place, and like I said, the inefficiency, waste and slowness of bureaucracies.) The private company will just save up toll money and keep it saved up to certain amounts, where they could afford to pave a certain distance of it.
They private sector management companies could carefully adjust the cost of the roll roads, so that traffic times X amount of dollars per vehicle = total cost of the road completed in lets say 5 years. The People that owned the property where the road went through, would of course have to sell the property to the private company (Sort of like Railroads do), that is if the owners were not using that property for something else. If it was, they'd have to find a way around property that they could voluntarily purchase from people. It would have to include the price that it would cost to clear the trees off of it or build a bridge over water or swamps. All that can be calculated in the planning phase by planners and schedulers just like most projects to build anything do.
People who wanted a road through a certain area could also VOLUNTARILY give money to the company, and receive stocks and bonds back for the money, and the company would pay for this property and the clearing of trees, because they saw the economic and efficient value in have the road go to and from the location. They have two options, the company would then decide if they wanted to sell more bonds and stocks and receive more investor money or just go straight toll dirt road at this point or certain mixes of the two. The choice is theirs. Isn't it wonder when private companies have freedom of choice to make the best decisions for THEIR company? LOL
After the land was bought and the trees were cleared, it could remain a dirt road, ever vehicle that USED the road would have to pay a toll to use the road. Or the company could sell more stocks and bonds to investors like you and me to raise the money to go ahead and pave the road. The teams could slowly pave it during off-times, much like they do now, and let's say you figure a 5 year window and your average daily use, and charge that much for each car that uses the road. If using the TOLL method, the popular path ways get build, but if it wasn't that popular it would take longer or it would be more expensive per car, if it was too high the road wouldn't be completed for a long time, because people didn't find the VALUE of putting a road through that area. If they used the Stock and Bond investor route, the road would just be paved right away, before vehicles even drive on it.
After the road was completely built, the toll could still stay in place, and certain scheduling an planning could be done to calculate the cost of repairs to the road, and then you take the average traffic on that road, and you come up with an even cheaper price, than the price it took to build the road. Now everyone is even happier, and you don't have to FORCE people to pay for a road that they have never used in their life, and some may never once use that road that they were forced to pay for with their tax money. A private company could even keep selling stocks and bonds to investors for the maintenance, and then that way, popular roads that got used a lot (like big interstate highways) would be a good investment and would be more well maintained more, than say some obscure road that nobody ever uses, which would probably lead that road to either die completely or be poorly maintained, like it only one person uses the road. Its sort of like Competition, and the more popular roads, the roads with the MOST VALUE, would beat out the crappier less used roads, that one person uses. That's kind of competition is good, its efficient and it works. Our current system doesn't quite work that way, its very inefficient, and lot of time tons of money is wasted on roads that very few people use, and are not even popular, not even to mention the bureaucratic waste that goes on with our forced mandatory tax dollars.
You see, when it comes to roads, there has been NUMEROUS studies done on it that PROVES not only do people LIKE toll roads better, than being taxed all kinds of ways involuntarily, but they actually LIKE getting to keep MORE of the money that they labor over, and then just pay for the roads that they actually USE the most with the TOLL system.
The problem with out government now, is that they DOUBLE hit us on Toll roads. They charge us crazy taxes AND hit us up for more cash on the TOLL roads. This is the OPPOSITE way in which toll roads are supposed to work.
You see, whenever you give government a huge slush fund of money, its always more inefficient, slower, costly, than if you would allowed a private sector company to do it. The market works.
The sad thing is that since the government has done it the WRONG way for 40 years, people such as yourself and everyone else that gets indoctrinated in our public schools and by the government' media, you didn't even KNOW that you could build roads with private companies and private workers, and that it is a much more efficient, cheaper, faster and all around better way to build things such as roads. Look at the railroad companies for instance, back in the 1800's. Look how THEY build their rails.
You see, private sector will ALWAYS beat out government in every single way, because FREE Markets WORK, no matter how much the government tries to destroy them, control them, and ultimate bring them all the way down with ridiculous costly regulations and BS hoops to jump through.
I'm pretty sure that there are not many here that even know it was possible for us to build roads with private companies, because we've been so brainwashed and indoctrinated into ONLY the government can build roads through forced Taxes, because that is what the government schools and the government's media WANT us to think. They want us to always think like slaves and serfs. Well its time we all break out of those chains and see the truth, and also see the government for what it is... inefficient, bureaucratic, wasteful, slow unbridled force.
I hope that explains everything a little bit better.
