Are taxes an "obligation to your fellow man" as someone told me on the weekend?
I'm having trouble with this.
Like, for example:
-If this is true, how does one work around the fact that nearly half of all Americans don't pay taxes? So it's an obligation for half the people and not the other half?
-Why does one have an "obligation" to a fellow citizen? Is it voluntary? Does it include, say, a murderer? What if someone chooses not to give, for argument sake, five dollars to another person?
- Are taxes not 'coercive' (and inefficient) by nature since government can levy them with all sorts of punishment if you don't? How about the issue of tax money going to waste - for example, petty corruption or cost over runs that could have been avoided? Does that obligation have to accept this?
- There's a growing debate about, here in Canada anyway, if we're getting bang for our buck in return when it comes to social obligations - which comes in the form of universal services.
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