Re:The suicide rate for farmers in the U.S. is more than dou...
by addicted on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @09:02PM
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Because upper middle class earners in blue states, and blue states in general, already pay out more in taxes than they get back. Rural areas don’t.
Re:The suicide rate for farmers in the U.S. is more than dou...
by moduspol on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @09:12PM
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Parent point: Why do farmers see taxes paid as providing no value to them? Don't they want roads?
My point: Nobody wants to pay taxes they don't have to, and farmers are no different from upper-middle class blue state residents in that regard. It doesn't mean they literally don't want roads.
That blue state residents already pay more in taxes than they get back is irrelevant. Nobody wants to pay more in taxes, and that doesn't mean nobody wants roads.
Re:The suicide rate for farmers in the U.S. is more than dou...
by aisofteng on Thursday December 07, 2017 @12:07AM
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>Nobody wants to pay more in taxes
Bullshit. I'm happy to pay more in taxes if it means that the society I'm a part of improves as a consequence.
Whether money from a tax increase is well spent is another question, however.
I feel like this comes up any time someone does something to avoid paying taxes, as if that necessarily means they want no government at all. They (the farmers) will see no appreciable difference whether they pay the tax or buy the tractor, so they choose the tractor. That doesn't mean they don't want roads.