Some questions about taxes, regulations, big governemtns...

[rnd]

"No government, no rules, no regulated market, no taxes. At all". Do liberals want that? Some radical ones, maybe?

 

Questions to Leo:

  * how come that the US can't afford relatively low taxes whereas some less reach counries can?  5%, under 10% are good taxes.

  * how come that Leo advocated taxes, however high they are, but the US, apart from other things, also bombs and invades countries, at the moment? Leo essentially pays taxes that, indirectly, fund the US army which then kills civilians from Iraq, Iran, Syria and other countries.

  * why do you assume that the government isn't corrupt and its laws are fare?

 

  * why do you view the taxes as a good thing but forget about the amount?

  * how come that an ordinary citizen that earns X amount pays Y of taxes, but giant corporations, that earn million times more, may pay 0?

  * in India there's a lot of bureaucracy. How come that the government isn't effective? Compared to... In the republic of Georgia, Singapore and Switzerland, for instance, there's less bureaucracy. And the structures of the governments are simpler, as far as I know. How come that they're less corrupt and more effective?

 

  * how come that the US can't afford free medicine services, whereas Russia, for instance, can?

  * how come that, despite a lot of regulations, the drugs and the medical services in the US versus India cost... I don't know... 10-100x times more. And it's not that the quality in the US 10-100x as better. It's just that the prices are inflated.

  * How come that the amount of prisoned people in the US is the highest in the world? The tax payers pay for those people. Yet, the US is far the safest country in the world. This is example of a big bureaucratic, high regulated governement which Leo wants to make even bigger, more bureaucratic and regulated.

 

* In the "ease of doing business" rating some countries, at the top, are small ones with smaller, simpler governments and where there're not lots of regulations. Granted, there're the US and UK somewhere in the first 10-20 too. But not at the top, though.

How?

Edited August 24, 2020 by rnd

[Carl-Richard]

12 minutes ago, rnd said:

* in India there's a lot of bureaucracy. How come that the government isn't effective? Compared to... In the republic of Georgia, Singapore and Switzerland, for instance, there's less bureaucracy. And the structures of the governments are simpler, as far as I know.

Any examples?

Edited August 24, 2020 by Carl-Richard

[Opo]

@rnd watch his video on libertarianism it anwsers most of these questions. 

[Lindsay]

Americans are asleep ?. Indoctrinated and distracted with consumerism. The USA is a diverse group. It’s hard to bring everyone together. I really like Yanis Varoufakis for trying to wake people up to the harsh reality of capitalism.