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Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls
Just another sheep who thinks they are thinking outside the box.
Make sure you step inline while you lose your money and your freedoms all for the new god.
The fact is that this only loses the governments a few pennies in the short term. Until everything is taxed beyond belief in the name of our new god; man made global warming.
Here is the box X here is you X
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My final post in this thread, and a useless one at that, since any reasonable argument is falling on deaf ears anyway.
In most western countries, there is no such thing as "the government". Instead, there are two or more political parties fighting for votes. The party/coalition in power is the one that has to take action. Taking action has immediate effects in terms of costs and economic growth. The party or coalition in power will be held responsible for these effects, and will likely lose votes because of this. If the effects are big enough, that party or coalition has a large chance of being voted out of office.
Meanwhile, looking at the long term, lower economic growth actually means *less* taxes can be collected - unless the government would choose to raise taxes further, which would hamper economic growth even more, etc.
Perhaps the most baffling thing about your position, though, is your strange conviction that there is an evil government that wants to tax you merely for the sake of taxing you. Where did you get that rather strange idea?