Read my lips: No new taxes
Why have conservatives always hated having a functional society? If I wanted to live in a country with less taxes to put towards having a functional government and paved roads I'd just move to some South American shithole.
>>18514394"Fuck I misspoke, read them again: 'I will raise all your taxes and also start a gratuitous war in the middle east'."
>>18514444>a functional society is when you stand in the breadline with the other cattle until the economy collapses o algo
>>18514454It's almost as if the issue with the USSR wasn't actually taxes but rather being under a corrupt commie government. Libertarianism is bigger intellectual poison than communism is
>>18514458Taxes are harmful to the economy. Wise management is also necessary, but low taxes and minimal government intervention are crucial to a thriving society.
>>18514449>start a gratuitous war in the middle eastIt's hilarious seeing fags trying to paint the Gulf War as some sort GWOT 0.5 when it was one of the biggest one-sided stomps in history
>>18514463GWOT?
>>18514461Taxes are one of those things that are hard to pin down because the government still needs internal revenue to function and we obviously need paved roads but if you go overboard you end up like Britain did in the 1960s
>>18514461>Wise management is also necessaryLike raising taxes to plug a budget gap instead of every president since bush sr just saying "dont worry about the debt lol" creating a slow building crisis that will ultimately require intentional hyperinflation of the dollar as the only way to service the debt?
>>18514475Raising taxes impacts economic stimulus that might actually make things worse in the long run. It's been the modus operandi that incurring debt is preferable to a lapse in economic growth
>>18514478It certainly is not preferable to use 20% of my tax dollars on debt interest.
>>18514471Taxes aren’t the only way the government can collect revenue. Alexander the Great, pursuant to a promise to the Macedonian barons, dropped the tax rate to 0%. Obviously this is a radical example but it’s proof of concept. Roads are an example of how taxes are overblown in two ways, because tolls are collected on those roads and they are funded by tolls rather than taxes alone.>>18514475You might as well just print infinite money to solve the problem retard
>>18514481>Roads are an example of how taxes are overblown in two ways, because tolls are collected on those roads and they are funded by tolls rather than taxes alone.Depends on the road, but most public roads are funded via gasoline taxes
>>18514482The most important and most widely used roads are toll roads.
>>18514483The most important and widely used roads are freeways though
>>18514463Gratuitous doesn't imply anything about who won or lost, though. Just that it was unnecessary.
>>18514508>You have to let your allies get annexed because... because you just have to ok
>>18514508this was one of the FEW wars where the US had an actual legal and international justification and sanction to intervene, the other being the Korean War
>>18514515Iraq was allied to the US in the 80s you tard, and that was while Bush Sr. was head of the CIA
>>18514605Iraq still maintains close ties to the US and their government even openly supports indefinite US troop presence there
>>18514571>actual legal and international justificationBased on fake war crime sob stories about how evil Iraqi soldiers were murdering hospitalized Kuwaiti babies in their incubators
>>18514606How about not blowing the national budget on a war followed by a recession, twice and just talking your fairweather ally down with some debt relief for his prior war in Iran that everyone in the world wanted (the US because they kicked out the Shah, the Gulf because they were Shia extremists, and even the USSR because they purged the socialists and threatened the further spread of Islamism)
>>18514607Saddam shouldn't have invaded Kuwait in the first place
>>18514444because they hate life. Know there is a class of men whose only delight is in destruction.
>>18514444South American countries have more taxes than the USA
