Why have conservatives always hated having a functional society? If I wanted to live in a country with less taxes to put towards having a functional government and paved roads I'd just move to some South American shithole.
>>18514454 It's almost as if the issue with the USSR wasn't actually taxes but rather being under a corrupt commie government. Libertarianism is bigger intellectual poison than communism is
>>18514458 Taxes are harmful to the economy. Wise management is also necessary, but low taxes and minimal government intervention are crucial to a thriving society.
>>18514449 >start a gratuitous war in the middle east It's hilarious seeing fags trying to paint the Gulf War as some sort GWOT 0.5 when it was one of the biggest one-sided stomps in history
>>18514461 Taxes are one of those things that are hard to pin down because the government still needs internal revenue to function and we obviously need paved roads but if you go overboard you end up like Britain did in the 1960s
>>18514461 >Wise management is also necessary Like raising taxes to plug a budget gap instead of every president since bush sr just saying "dont worry about the debt lol" creating a slow building crisis that will ultimately require intentional hyperinflation of the dollar as the only way to service the debt?
>>18514475 Raising taxes impacts economic stimulus that might actually make things worse in the long run. It's been the modus operandi that incurring debt is preferable to a lapse in economic growth
>>18514471 Taxes aren’t the only way the government can collect revenue. Alexander the Great, pursuant to a promise to the Macedonian barons, dropped the tax rate to 0%. Obviously this is a radical example but it’s proof of concept. Roads are an example of how taxes are overblown in two ways, because tolls are collected on those roads and they are funded by tolls rather than taxes alone. >>18514475 You might as well just print infinite money to solve the problem retard
>>18514481 >Roads are an example of how taxes are overblown in two ways, because tolls are collected on those roads and they are funded by tolls rather than taxes alone. Depends on the road, but most public roads are funded via gasoline taxes
>>18514508 this was one of the FEW wars where the US had an actual legal and international justification and sanction to intervene, the other being the Korean War
>>18514571 >actual legal and international justification Based on fake war crime sob stories about how evil Iraqi soldiers were murdering hospitalized Kuwaiti babies in their incubators
>>18514606 How about not blowing the national budget on a war followed by a recession, twice and just talking your fairweather ally down with some debt relief for his prior war in Iran that everyone in the world wanted (the US because they kicked out the Shah, the Gulf because they were Shia extremists, and even the USSR because they purged the socialists and threatened the further spread of Islamism)