[tagami]

Yeah it’s inefficient, but that “deadweight loss” gives you the common infrastructure required for a modern society (roads, police, fire, et al)

[tengbretson]

In the US nearly all of your examples of what we get in return are funded by sales and property taxes

[HideousKojima]

Specifically, roughly 70% of the federal budget is spent on the military, social security, medicare, and medicaid.

[stuxnet]

Not to mention a gigantic military budget including all the alphabet agencies... all funded by that inefficiency.

[f7ebc20c97]

Perhaps there is a way to pay for these things besides taxes? Unthinkable!