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Re:Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £22... by roenxi on Thursday June 03, 2021 @07:45AM (#27379805)
To invert that: if people understood how much the services being provided to them cost they would not consume them.

The goal of government shouldn't be to obscure the cost of government services. The cost should be justified.

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Re:Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £22... by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday June 03, 2021 @07:48AM (#27379843)
> To invert that: if people understood how much the services being provided to them cost they would not consume them.

I don't think that's true. I think what is true, and what we've seen time and time again, is that people don't like the cost of services that others take advantage of that they don't need to.

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Re:Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £22... by neilwilson on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:54AM (#27383223)
That puts the cart before the horse. People voted for them, so they are provided - and the people required to run them removed from the private sector.

To invert that, what exactly are you planning on doing with the people currently in the public service, which the people voted for, that is so much more important than providing the services the people voted for?

It is for the private sector to justify its use of resources, not the public sector. The public sector has a democratic mandate.

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