Re:Sweet sanity: 75% of Americans say infringement fines sho...
by nitrogen on Thursday November 17, 2011 @02:50AM
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It's not a binary, single-axis issue. If people think their taxes should be lower, it could mean a number of things:
- Taxes are too high
- Government service is too poor
- The government is not doing an adequate job of informing people how much benefit they get from paying taxes (Europe seems to do much better in this regard, based on reading HN comments from Europeans).
- The government is not transparent enough in how taxes are allocated.
- Taxes are too high
- Government service is too poor
- The government is not doing an adequate job of informing people how much benefit they get from paying taxes (Europe seems to do much better in this regard, based on reading HN comments from Europeans).
- The government is not transparent enough in how taxes are allocated.