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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 !
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 ??