vulture
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If you increase taxation, you decrease your purchase power and increase a political elite purchasing power. I do not agree on free education, first because there's not free lunch and it's really that someone else's forced to pay your education, but it's even worst if you are not chosing your education (via vouchers), that would be slightly better: you get some money only spendable on education and you chose a private institution to get education, thus avoiding indoctrination.No, not all countries. But there is a significant correlation between low marginal tax rates and increasing social/economic inequality, and then there is a clear significant correlation between inequality and mentall illness, rate of violence, incarceration, and so on. So, a low-tax, highly unequal country with quasi free access to guns is the perfect place to get shot.
In theory, I agree with all your basic sentiments and I somehow dislike the realtionship between citizens and the state that can coerce me to pay property taxes, send my kid to a school with indoctrinated teachers, etc. But I am not so naive as to think that simply lowering taxes, and providing more economic freedom will remedy that. The realtionship will remain the same while the society around us becomes even worse, with the rich getting richer and more influential, and the middle class and lower class people becoming more desperate, sick, and violent.
I would also like to life in a society where everbody is free from government coercion and can work for, and achieve a good life if they just work hard enough. Simply providing more economic freedom, though, will just result in a horrible dystopia like the United States .
I come from a working class family where nobody ever attended university or made much money, and I was the first to ever graduate from one. The only way that was possible, is because people in Germany pay relatively high taxes so that I could go to a good (free of charge) Kindergarden, learn to play an instrument, be part of a sports club, and get free tutoring, in order to later attend a university free of charge (an idea utterly absurd to Americans or Brits). My parents would never have been able to afford all these things on their own, so I know on a personal level that paying your taxes has a good side for society.
Social upward mobility, the chance to move up in life for those who were not born with a silver spoon in their mouths, is inversely correlated with low taxation and inequality, and I have never seen any evidence that higher taxes is negatively correlated with cultural freedom. So, high taxes will not causally lead a more unfree society just as lowering taxes will not free you from the oppression of government and big corporations.
U.S.A. is closer to mercantilism than capitalism, they are consistently getting more regulations, corporate influences increasing decade after decade on the state. If you let the state rule over every aspect of your life, you are f****d, someone's gonna pay or get that power to sc** you. They sell their abuse to avoid privates abuse, but that's a lie, they end up using the increasing power to pursue their interest, and once the state have gained power over something, it might not be that easy to revert it. Socialism doesn't seem to get reverted but once it induces a severe crisis. That's why I'm inclined to natural rights, state shall not be able to dispose of your property, life or freedom, those are basic rights, and I think gun control is usually going to make easier for tyrants to decrease peoples freedom without having to face armed miliatias opposing their power, you may have 1.000.0000 military, but that's nothing compared to dozens of millions of people that hates you and are also armed, maybe those rights in the constitution and people armed to defend them is what have prevented the U.S. to have a tyrant and more abuses. Also, gun control usually doesn't take guns out of criminal hands (there's a black marke) -and obviously not from cops and military, but from working people.