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Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by simonh on Monday March 13, 2017 @05:06AM (#13856266)
The problem with that isn't taxation, it's voting in people who approve that spending.

UK tax payer here, so the specifics are different, but I have no problem paying my taxes. We have decent free health care, a capable and I think 'right sized' armed forces for our needs, competent policing and security services and my children get free education. If any of those things were not true I wouldn't necessarily want my taxes to be reduced, I'd want the problems with those services to be fixed.

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Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by arethuza on Monday March 13, 2017 @07:16AM (#13856783)
"I think 'right sized' armed forces for our needs"

The UK armed forces do seem a bit top-heavy and our record when it comes to procurement is, by most accounts, appalling.

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Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by greedo on Monday March 13, 2017 @08:48AM (#13857283)
Right-sized? You have almost no tanks anymore, and the ones you do are 80's era. The Royal Navy is a shadow of a shadow navy. The RAF is woefully under-equipped to protect against Russian incursions.
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Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by adaml_623 on Monday March 13, 2017 @10:23AM (#13858008)
Maybe they are not worried about the Russians but about other "under the table" threats where someone might shoot first.
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Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by pricechild on Monday March 13, 2017 @05:43AM (#13856424)
I found https://uk.wikibudgets.org/w/united-kingdom-budget-2015 a few days ago.

I had assumed the defense budget was larger, it was a nice way of displaying the information.

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Re:How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing ... by SpaceRaccoon on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @01:06PM (#13869340)
I agree. The outrage is how taxes are spent. If my tax dollars are used poorly then it's difficult to feel good about paying them.
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