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Cash has always been a trusted medium of exchange. Apart from convenience of payment, to what extent is going cashless useful for the common man ? It’s the same 💶 for all the countries !
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When your money goes digital instead of the solid cash, you’re literally going to toil for “nothing”, as anything digital is always programmable. Your money gets automatically deducted from your account, whether you consent or not.
Whose money is it ?? The government’s or yours ???
I mainly pay with card to be sure the seller pay his taxes. Italy loses a significant percentage of pil due to tax evasions. I drink tears of tax evaders.
So you believe taxes are justified ?
You work for the government ?
https://zeroaggressionproject.org/uncategorized/ten-arguments-against-taxation/
You must not have an idea on how bad Italy tax evasion is. If I find the article I’ll edit the comment but it showed that something like 70% don’t pay taxes.
Probably not that bad but i read that 1/10 of the pil is gone due to tax evasion. The problem are PMI (small and medium businesses) that evade every occasion they have (plumbers, hairdressers, clothes washing etc.) and so the people that can’t phisically evade (aka people with fixed salaries, employees) watch their taxes skyrocket and their services going down.
Plumbers, hairdressers, launderers are not business but extremely hard working people, who don’t deserve to get robbed by the legislations framed by the representatives of the corporates !!
Yeah everybody work hard, doesnt give you the right to literally rob the collectivity. Salarymen pay for a much larger portion of goverment budget cause they have the taxes paid for them without exeption. That seems fair to you? That people who are btw much more hit by inflation also have to pay higher taxes cause others egoistically evade? And for what? Because they dont evade to survive, i assure you. They need for a bigger suv. Sickening people
That’s the system of taxation. Your taxes get deducted even before you get the money in hand. So yes, on one hand your taxes are getting deducted and on the other, you’re paying through your nose during inflation. As l said, how many people know what are the actual sources of revenue for the government ??
Money has always been an illusion, but with digital system, you don’t even see what you’re working for, other than the blink of numbers on your mobile phone screen.
You still pay the tax even you if don’t file for tax returns.
Why should you pay taxes anyways ? Who does it benefit ?
Me cause i have free healthcare, university, benefit according to my level of income and so on. Its not even a worth debate if your point is “taxes are useless”
I’ll give you one example how the government spends the taxpayer’s money. In my country, the central government has got a scheme for improving the roads. All of a sudden, our municipal corporation dug up our nice roads, made them unnecessarily higher and made the drains prone to accidents. They harassed the people for months for doing this work.
And the worst thing is that the municipal corporation did it selectively just to our lane as our councillor is from the opposition party.
Just because it’s Europe, does it mean that the governments are really reliable when it comes to spending the taxpayer’s money ??
So the government does something bad, not even directly cause as you said the problem is at municipal level, and suddenly taxes are bad and goverment isnt capable of doing anything good or spend money rightly? Seems a generalisation.
The municipality is the local self government. At least, this portion of the government we can easily track because we know the people forming the municipalities directly. What l showed was how the various government institutions spend the taxpayer’s 💰.
Consider this : is EU at war with Russia ?? Ukraine is not a part of the EU.
I don’t know which country you are from, but there was a prime minister called Berlusconi in Italy. He was a tycoon, much like Trump. If you look at it deeply, all the people in the governments are basically plutocrats. They’re there to serve the interests of the big corporates. In India too, Modi takes orders from outsiders like Trump, from Israel, from Bill Gates and from tycoons like the Adanis and the Ambanis.
Taxes are indeed useless, as inflation is also a form of taxation. Look up on this !!
Have you ever considered looking into the incomes and the expenditures of the government ??
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