Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (429)	2/2/2005 10:30:22 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

Just out of curiousity - do you really think lower taxes makes a nation more free? Short answer, Yes. Long answer - Considered in isolation yes, and that applies all the way down to zero taxes. Of course taxes don't operate in isolation. If you have zero taxes you have no government, and thus anarchy. Anarchy would normally cause people to be less free in some ways, and they would suffer in other ways not directly related to freedom. Also a state of anarchy is often unstable, someone will cease power and under the new regime people aren't likely to be very free. If taxes are spent on keeping a stable order and protecting peoples rights than the spending contributes more to individual freedom than the taxes take away from individual freedom, but even in this situation, when you consider the taxes in isolation they do reduce freedom. Tim