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Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj
It shouldn't be spent at all; it shouldn't be taxed at all. People know better how to spend their money, and if they weren't taught from birth that the state will do things for them, and they needed a road, they'd organize and build it.
I disagree; citizens of the Roman Empire worked less than 2 days a year to cover taxes, and it was enough to keep all the legions in working order.
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Mule Fritters! Most of the real work was done by slaves. Oh, so easy to forget who paid the *real* cost of that system. Not to mention the free labor of all those conquered peoples who weren't considered citizens.
Don't cherry-pick your data - there are people who know enough history to call you on it.
And taxes *are* people being organized to build roads, etc. This is a democracy, at least it is here where I am. The State R Us. Taxes are one of the ways we cooperate to build the things all of us need. Yeah, there are always going to be deadbeats who don't want to pay their share, but don't make a virtue of it.