Topic: Reason we pay taxes and why we should - page 44. (Read 3652 times)

yes,paying taxes should not be a burden because by paying taxes we can contribute in building the country. from taxes the government can build hospital, build public school and many more. to improve our country is not just the government task but it also became our task as a citizen.

The obligation to pay taxes for citizens is for the country itself. A country needs a lot of income in order to stabilize everything, one of the country's greatest income is through taxes. Because taxes can be functioned for various things, such as regional development, road construction, for the health and welfare of society and many others.

No problem if we pay taxes because tax is considered as a lifeblood in one country,but in good terms the governments provide projects like infrastructures or medical assistance.
Actually in my country the money we pay for taxes will be corrupted and not being properly use.I agreed to pay taxes into correct ways putting the money we paid.

I beg to differ though. The government is greedy and we all know that. Even after your death, the tax will haunt you (inheritance tax, estate tax and what not). Tax is more like a forced contribution to the government and people even if they don't use their services are forced to pay the tax (for example someone opts in to study in private school instead of public school or does not take social benefits but will still have to pay taxes). I am not saying tax is a bad thing, but the government should redefine how the taxes are collected.

Many people are not asking for the complete removal of a tax system, but rather disagree
with the high level of taxation in their respective country. I´d have no problem with paying
a fixed 10 % tax on all my income, but I do have a problem with paying 40 % or more
(especially, because the actual tax burden is even higher due to taxation via inflation
and consumption taxes).

The problem with focusing on electing a more responsible government is an inherent problem
of democracies. The easiest way to get people to vote for you is to promise to increase government
spending and government handouts. This leads to a bidding war between politicians and
ruins the state finances in the long-term every single time.

Besides, most countries have a huge electorate that is living directly off government transfers and
is therefore heavily incentivized to vote for irresponsible candidates that will not
consolidate the finances of the state.

We should pay taxes because it is a duty of a citizen like us to the country as well as the people around us to pay for it because I hope the government will use that tax to do it. the public good for society as well as bitcoin.

Yeah, I partly agree:

paying taxes should build up nice social things like mentioned before but if a government uses them for silly, selfish goals then it is not easy to smile when they are taking away more than half of your salary...

There are a lot of reasons why we pay taxes and for me paying taxes is important. The staright road we walked and drive on, the public schools that the youngster attended to, the public hospitals people without enough money goes to are the results of the taxes we paid. The reason we did it is to better our life in the community we live in and help those who cannot afford the expensive expenses. People should to it because it serve as the budget of our government to improve the place we called home. So don't frown and be mad if you are paying taxes because a small amount of help from you could be the big blessings for others.

In short, we pay taxes in order to help government to lead social services, army, police, to give salary to state employees etc.
It's main and the most important income for any state.
It's completely understandable for me to pay taxes if I will have free health service, social help, retirement etc.
Do you think that many people can afford all of this alone?

There are at least two reasons why taxes are dubious, mildly speaking. First of all, government (and any government, for that matter) is very ineffective in using people's money. So it is a big question how much or rather how little of the taxes collected is actually used for all these things and to what effect. Secondly, government is printing money anyway, and this is called an inflation tax which we are all paying nolens volens. Further, if instead of paying taxes, government would make people build the roads, parks, hospitals, etc, you would be surprised how little the society would have to shell out on all this in terms of both money and effort.

Taxes are primarily used for the general public-infrastructures, health, education etc. So basically, taxes are for the betterment of the constituents of any government.

This is a good reason why we need to pay taxes, but since government are so corrupt in many countries people are now afraid to pay taxes. I'm not against on this kind of system, I'm willing to pay for it no matter what but I just hope that the tax collection will spend in the right projects. People should pay taxes right its for our own sake and I still believe in the goverment.

Paying taxes here in our country is an obligation that's why whether we like it or not, we have to pay for it.We have to face a failure-to-file penalty if we fail to pay our taxes.Yes you are right that tax money are very useful in making schools,road concreting,widening,salaries for government employees and others for the benefits of the many.

Because, you are not single in the world and if there is not a govern, you can not live single. The states can not put the money in their pockets, they make your life easier with this money.

I'm not against taxation as long as the funds are used properly, it is very important to help build one nation. What I hate most is the misused of funds and corruption, the main problem are those incompetent people in the government that rapes the system.

Tax do really help from little things to big things we have on our community. The products we buy  from the store do have taxes, from our wages on work and many more. Our taxes funds services also for us and for the country, we pay tax for paying the government employees whom secures the safety of the people which is police and firefighters whenever emergency event happens.

Yeah, they can be done. But they aren't
Why? Because they fail.
People are always happy to see they won't be paying taxes for roads, hospitals etc, but when times comes to pay for private healthcare private roads, private water company they tend to do the same. Not pay.
It's Greece all over again



Nice, in theory.
Let's talk about roads then, who will decide if the next highway is going to build 100 or 200 meters from the last house in the city? The only option is voting, so....independence my ****
Private army? How much is this going to cost us? How do we decide? Oh, the vote of the majority  


I'm wondering who keeps electing those corrupt politicians.......


So basically it's not the government alone, it's also about the policemen, probably doctors, judges, administration and let's not forget that they can demand bribe but the ones paying and encouraging this practice are also guilty of this.
Since I live in Eastern Europe and my country is also a bit or more corrupted, I know this pretty well, people complaining about doctors demanding money, but still paying up the bribe and encouraging this practice...



You can't really do that...
There is a small town close by, around 20 km from my home.
I can almost bet than 80% of the population is older than 70 and probably less than 5% is employed.
With no help from the central government and distribution of funds, how would they be able to afford police, doctors, firefighters?
Or do you think you have it in you to knock at their doors and say
"Yeah, I know you lived here for almost a century, you paid taxes all your life, but now you have to move cause I don't want my money paying for your bus or ambulance?"
Be honest, what would you do with those settlements?

Don't get me wrong I hate socialism from all my heart, second only to communism in which unfortunately I've lived but there is a huge difference between socialism and providing equal services for all the population.
After all, Denmark is not socialist (although many want to believe that)
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And now on the subject, I think a lot of people are having the wrong idea about it.
Rather than being openly against taxes and avoid paying them, why not concentrate the effort on electing a parliament and indirectly a government that will not play around with our money?

My colleagues at work are one hell of an example, every coffee break they criticize the government, the mayor, the local council, but less than 1/4 have voted in the elections...

Taxes are very important to the development of our country, But not only for development it has many purposes just like the salary of the government workers but these days government officials corrupting the funds of the country and they can't provide any changes or if there's any changes it's just a small not a big positive changes
We need a good leader to control the corruption that's why we are thankful here in the Philippines because our new president are very good and corrupt he is doing anything to make improvement for the philippines.

That is a good list but you forgot about the defense system and salary for military personnel. Without it your country will be taken over by a stronger neighbour if you have any useful resources. Taxes are sadly needed, but millionaires should be paying more, either in fiat or crypto (when they are accepted)

First of all, if the government implement it, we should do what they want us to do, or else see you in prison. Second, the government do that not onky to get money from people but also use it for building roads, infrustracture, hospitalization, education and even more.