{"id":2533,"date":"2009-04-23T09:54:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T13:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2009\/04\/23\/using-tax-money\/"},"modified":"2009-06-11T18:19:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T22:19:35","slug":"using-tax-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2009\/04\/23\/using-tax-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Tax Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

Found this great quote from a discussion over on Slashdot<\/a> on a story of some attackers cutting fiber cables into a city in California<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cUsing tax money to provide goods and services does two things: it hides the true cost by shifting the burden of payment onto other people and it eliminates choice. Those are both bad, but for different reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is a very insightful quote, and one that people would do well to remember whenever they start talking about having \u201cthe government pay for it.\u201d (Of course there are cases where using tax money is the only<\/em> way to do certain things, but it\u2019s still good to keep this in mind.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Using tax money to provide goods and services does two things: it hides the true cost by shifting the burden of payment onto other people and it eliminates choice. Those are both bad, but for different reasons.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[66,137],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society","tag-slashdot","tag-tax","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-ER","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1312,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/08\/27\/the-difference-between-the-government-and-the-mafia\/","url_meta":{"origin":2533,"position":0},"title":"The Difference Between the Government and the Mafia","author":"Keith Survell","date":"August 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I saw this in a discussion over on Slashdot about New York sales\/use tax - someone mentioned that \"New York has always been a bit bizzare about taxes.\" Someone else replied with: They're not bizarre; they're just greedy for every dollar they can get their grubby little paws on. Just\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "fun stuff"","block_context":{"text":"fun stuff","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/fun-stuff\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1042,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/02\/07\/amusing-sig\/","url_meta":{"origin":2533,"position":1},"title":"Amusing .Sig","author":"Keith Survell","date":"February 7, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"A great sig, found once again on Slashdot: Oh look, its my tax dollars at work coming to arrest me.","rel":"","context":"In "fun stuff"","block_context":{"text":"fun stuff","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/fun-stuff\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":470,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/04\/18\/and-i-thought-i-hated-taxes\/","url_meta":{"origin":2533,"position":2},"title":"And I thought I hated taxes","author":"Keith Survell","date":"April 18, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Finally! Someone else who feels like I do during tax-time!","rel":"","context":"In "politics"","block_context":{"text":"politics","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":809,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2006\/10\/28\/taxes\/","url_meta":{"origin":2533,"position":3},"title":"Taxes","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 28, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"You might want to watch this - It's about taxes, specifically the United States Federal Income Tax - and how it may not be legitimate. 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