• OmenAtom@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I pay for schools i dont go to, hospitals in places ill never go to, roads i dont use. The point of taxes is to pay for the things that better everyone even if you yourself dont personally use them.

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      2 years ago

      Okay, but schools and hospitals don’t destroy the fabric of cities and don’t destroy the environment. Schools and hospitals actually improve society a lot and SHOULD be subsidized.

      A majority of the money spent on car infrastructure does NOT go to improving society. In the current state of things, cars harm society, and the majority of people using cars don’t need cars. Most of the money spent on car infrastructure should be put into actually making transportation not car-dependent, and as I said earlier car drivers should subsidize this.