Re:How Not to Build a Country: Canada’s Late Soviet Pessimism
by all2 on Monday September 30, 2019 @05:21PM
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> Taxes are redistributed ...
No. Taxes are spent on goods an services, the same as any property owner spends rent income.
The outcomes of expenditures on each part is different (sometimes a plate tax is actually applied to road maintenance). But the concept of a slush-fund and no (or few) legal guardrails for expenditures means your tax dollars probably land in a pet project somewhere, or are consumed in the financial friction of government bureaucracy.
No. Taxes are spent on goods an services, the same as any property owner spends rent income.
The outcomes of expenditures on each part is different (sometimes a plate tax is actually applied to road maintenance). But the concept of a slush-fund and no (or few) legal guardrails for expenditures means your tax dollars probably land in a pet project somewhere, or are consumed in the financial friction of government bureaucracy.