Why not let people choose where they want their tax money to go towards?

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They could give multiple options. Like do you want your money to go towards education, or supporting genocide?
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Do you want right wingers to be able to opt out of funding social safety nets?
Or opt in to subsiding billionaires and hate groups?
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I've had the same thought before. Then I remembered that a good amount of people are stupid and can't be bothered to act in their own self interest.
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Administrative nightmare, if we operate under the assumption that the average taxpayer would not be lazy.
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A lot of people would give the police even more money and schools even less.
Exactly how much of your money is supporting genocide? Are you even buying a ream of genocidal printer paper?
You kinda can. You pay less taxes depending on your donation to your charity of choice. I'm sure others know more about this.
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Well this topic was easily answered.
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I would pull funding from Israel right away. Immediately. If I could.
I want my tax dollars to go into my wallet
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So half of the country would stop funding the military and the other half of the country would stop funding all social welfare and infrastructure spending?
Irregardless, for all intensive purposes, I could care less.
K181 posted...
So half of the country would stop funding the military and the other half of the country would stop funding all social welfare and infrastructure spending?
A Libertarians paradise until they realize how much it would actually suck.
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Sometimes they do. Like when you can vote to increase taxes that will help your local school district.
VeggetaX posted...
You kinda can. You pay less taxes depending on your donation to your charity of choice. I'm sure others know more about this.
Only if you're itemizing and that essentially requires owning property.
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That would completely defeat the purpose of taxes.
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