That’s that the position for American libertarianism’s.

I don’t particularly hate taxes because I like my government services well funded.

I maintain that there simply is not enough tax base for these areas to fund themselves but you’ve done a wonderful job moving the goal posts beyond anything the article is stating; they rely on federal funds to operate.

What data do you have to back up corruption?

Keep in mind there are far more small towns than large towns. As a ratio it seems unlikely that small towns are more likely to be corrupt than cities.

The question then is what funds are they using to facilitate this corruption. My guess is federal and state funds because again, they lack the tax base.

Have to shoot off my own foot before I can run faster.

Donor auction, obviously.

The billionaire said I must eat these trays of shit sandwiches so I can have a chance to eat a turkey sandwich later.

Pave it for what purpose with what money? No one wants to park in the middle of no where.

There is a lot of rural land and it is worthless, that’s why they cannot fund themselves.

Good.

Better for the environment anyway.

Rewild the rural landscape back to forests and prairies.

You say crazy but I believe you meant predictable.

they don’t accept themselves.

This is a requirement for being a republican if you’re bank account doesn’t have seven zeros.

It present in many forms but lack of acceptance of themselves, their situation and the reality around themselves is a prerequisite for being a republican.

I like weed but hate taxes.

Look at this red neck hick over here drinking cheap beer who things he’s a god because people tolerate him enough to use him for his tiny island of knowledge around cnc machines.

The only line of work he can maintain because the machine doesn’t judge him for his horrendous stench and ogre like appearance.

Most painful comment so far

Hell, they want to enslave a chunk of their own side. Shouldn’t be long until it’s illegal to be too poor.

I doubt prices will drop as fast as bankruptcies will increase because the distribution chain has that price inflation and it will react slowly. The tighter the margin the more quickly the business will fail.

Employment will also drop quickly because firing people is a fast and easy way to reduce overhead so service quality will dive off a cliff.

But, hey, less traffic! Yay!

Agreed on the weird side affects.

My state charges an ev surcharge and since I do very little driving it costs more than the tax on what little gas I would use.

Electricity produced by solar panels is not taxed.

Most electricity is not used by EVs so there is no correlation to road maintenance. It’s an inappropriate way to fund roads. It would make more sense to tax tires.

An electricity tax could be used to convince people to self generate their electricity but utility monopolies would lobby hard against it but it will never solve road funding.

Sunk cost fallacy.

Unless you literally destroy the old ice vehicle to replace it with a new ev, the new ev is a net improvement for the environment.

But since it enters the used car market, this is not the case. The replaced ice vehicle is likely pushing an older more polluting ice vehicle out of the system.

We suffer today because we allowed the right to strip away workers rights. Entire generations have been convinced they are better off without collective bargaining.

Everything else is pure fucking noise.

Globalization is the excuse they use for why unions are bad but there are tons of jobs that cannot be unions with terrible wages so clearly globalization is not the problem but it is a very convient excuse because we get to blame Those People.

You’re still relying on making this personal. You aren’t at pure of thought as think yourself as you mouth these well established platitudes.

The idea I am discussing here is a pure libertarian stance on commerce and I understand why you are unable to label it correctly as the American Libertarian are just anti-tax morons who are too embarrassed to call themselves republicans.

The government should not be protecting industries via tariffs. Trump supporters love tariffs and agree with your stances therefore you are a Trump lover.

See how easy that was to paint you as something you likely are not? It’s far easier to label people so you can dismiss them than to attempt understanding a perspective that conflicts with your own.

That is not the safety issue I am referring to.

Yes, that’s exactly why I’m for allowing countries that can do it cheaper to import their goods. It’s cheaper for everyone.

No one is owed a job, using the government to project jobs and profits cost us all. It is corporation socialism sold with the slogan, “think of the workers” – the fact that the right pushes for this agenda is a huge fucking red flag. They pick and choose the workers they pretend to care about and every single time it’s because there is a huge opportunity to extract profit from labor.

I think the peoblem here is I understand the world more than you. I didn’t use such a silly appeal to make my position because I use logical and you used feelings and insults.