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Re:Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered shi... by tonyedgecombe on Monday December 06, 2021 @05:25AM (#29458063)
I don't know. In the UK I can submit my taxes online, the whole thing is straightforward even including dividends and capital gains tax. It spits out the calculations for you and avoids needing an accountant. You could do it all manually but why would you when it is so efficient.

There is clearly a spectrum here and blindly labelling all government as useless is wrong.

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Re:Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered shi... by t0suj4 on Monday December 06, 2021 @06:25AM (#29458396)
The parent commenter didn't refer to efficiency of tax collection.

They refer to the fact that taxes is the pot the government will draw money from whenever any of their enterprises becomes unprofitable. If the pot is too small to fund all the projects they can simply grow out by taxing the populace more.

When an unprofitable business in the private sector runs out of investor money it sells all its assets and eventually collapses.

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Re:Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered shi... by tonyedgecombe on Monday December 06, 2021 @09:50AM (#29460344)
>The parent commenter didn't refer to efficiency of tax collection.

Tax collection is part of government and in this case is an useful counterexample to the endless "all government is bad" messages we regularly hear on HN.

>When an unprofitable business in the private sector runs out of investor money it sells all its assets and eventually collapses.

Yes, and unpopular governments get voted out (assuming they are democratic).

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Re:Amazon is bypassing supply chain chaos with chartered shi... by cloudier on Monday December 06, 2021 @09:01PM (#29468351)
It is easy to believe that “all government is bad” when the only government you’ve interacted with is the US government. Thanks for highlighting a counter example.
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