| > They do, very successfully and most of the government services you and others have aurgued with me about income tax providing are not infact provided for by income taxes in the US. Roads, Schools, Police, Fire, etc almost none of that is funded by Income Taxes, it is funded by Property Taxes, Sales Taxes,and excise taxes. US police is not an example of anything. They are literally fining people to fill their quotas to support the budget, leave aside their murderous practices. American schools neither are - the quality of American education has gone downhill since state-subsidized education was done for. Your roads are literally disintegrating, brigdges are falling down as people drive on it. No. Those schemes just do not work. They never worked in history for any society, and they don't seem like working in the US. > Ahh the religion of democracy. also known as 2 wolves and a lamb voting for what they will have for dinner. That's your endemic American problem thanks to your two party system due to FPTP and your anti-government indoctrination. Government and democracy pretty much work well anywhere else in the world. > the rich WANT an income based system of taxation The rich don't want any taxation. The rich want the late 19th century environment in which they could just buy and own anything. The only way that they were reined in was after T. Roosevelt brought all those pesky antitrust regulations and FDR piled up the taxes and social programs. Otherwise it was a Dickensian world. > is truly an equalizing force The free market handed over ENTIRE US to ~12 robber barons to own when it was as free as possible in the late 1800s. Randian 'free cities' and environments ended up in hellholes. https://www.gawker.com/ayn-rands-capitalist-paradise-is-now-... The decline of central state allowed local feudal lords to rise and own everything and everyone toward the end of Roman empire. Chinese history is full of examples repeating the same, the 'free' market giving way to warlords who stomped down people like you when they had the chance. We have been there, done that. And yet here you are, still PREACHING the same thing from a country that KILLS its people if they cant pay for healthcare. That's why it is called a belief, a religion. For there isn't anything other than your faith backing it. |