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I believe you are referring to healthcare and retirement services but in reality this argument is invalid. Healthcare is independently owned by private investors that’s why there are multiple health insurance options and retirement funds are mostly job related due to 401k oppurtunities offered through them. However, the argument could be made that a person working in fast food for the rest of their life would need a retirement fund but I hope that people have bigger dreams than that but maybe I’m wrong.

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This same argument is made over and over again about schools and helping the community but how many people on this side actually looked up the national budget and examined the amount of money that went into each of these. A very minuscule amount of the budget goes towards these things. We’re entrusting the government with our money and then not paying attention to where it is actually going.

Supporting Evidence: National budget (www.nationalpriorities.org)
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It’s not the idea of paying taxes because I would make less money that I disagree with it’s the fact that we entrust money each year to a budget that is proportionally off. This money is expected of us and we don’t know where it’s going with a very minimum amount spent on infastructure. I also linked to an article where the federal budget is shown to prove my point

Supporting Evidence: Government spending chart (www.nationalpriorities.org)
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As my article states one of the main arguments against taxes is the fundamental basis that it stands on. Whenever taxes were created people did not mind contributing money to help fund schools or public programs, however taxes have been molded into something else where the government expects a certain portion of our money to do whatever they want within the budget. Many investors do more with their money by contributing it to privately owned charities then they do by paying taxes. The amount of money dedicated to public works and schooling now is significantly smaller than many of the other items on the budget list. This shows that all of the tax money we think is going to providing clean water and better roads is actually going to fund some other aspect of the budget instead.

Supporting Evidence: Progressive taxation argument (www.google.com)
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