donation != tax
donation - voluntary, and for a specific field or cause
tax - unvoluntary, broad
Taxation cant be controlled. You cannot decide to what you give it for. You cant decide to give it to someone else. So there is no competition for the money, so there is no motivation for quality or improvement.
My 2 sats 🤙 Correct me if I am wrong.
Yes all that and much more.
Donations do not disincentivise productive work as taxation does. Donations can bring you closer to the cause you are helping. You feel personally connected to it and more often get to see its effects. It builds community. Charities have to compete in a free market for who provides the most value. And they know if they do not perform they can't just steal more money from people. The people accepting the charity realise that this was a gift from an individual not just from the unlimited resources of the government. Fosters gratitude rather than entitlement... and the list goes on.
Yeah, that's why the secularists reformers took over and financed everything social with taxes, to make sure that the charities couldn't pick or choose who received the charity.
I'm fine with either, and with personally funding either. Christians who read the Bible and attend services every week pay up disproportionately high, under either system.
For clarity, I am absolutely okay with the Church running everything again. Don't threaten me with a good time.
Should we bring back inquisitions too?
We never got rid of them. Thankfully.
Ah, I see. You're a religious nutjob.
I'm the only person in this discussion who is completely sane.
Lol, ok.
you liked about liking to pay taxes tho, i have heard plenty about how you don't like what the government is doing and your taxes empower that
i'm right now pondering maybe i will skip getting a license and just save for a bit and get a super long range capable high powered electric scooter for getting around, i've seen ones that claim over 100km range and if it has regenerative brakes it might actually come close to enabling me to travel all the way to Funchal on a charge
There is a lot of space between minarchy and anarchy. I'd like to starve the government and force it to be more efficient with its resources, not completely abolish it.
i think minarchism is a pipe dream and central to the myths surrounding the formation of the federation of the USA, which was as dramatically revealed by Musk's DOGE to be absolutely endemic to the entire bureaucracy
the prescription in the bible that you can read about in Samuel is precisely a polycentric law system and absolutely no kings or anything similar to kings, and modern liberal democracy and monarchy both share a lot of basic principles
i want to be answerable only to the people who are my neighbours, the inevitable and repeated story of empires over the last 2000 years has shown that as soon as you start delegating your rights to the hands of "representatives" who you never get to talk to is tyranny
People with those beliefs don't believe people who don't have the same imaginary friend are deserving of being treated like humans.
If you kill me for being a heathen you've taken away later opportunities for me to convert. Not just a murder but eternal damnation based on your human judgement of me. The hubris to think that is your job when you believe your god is all knowing and all powerful. Doesn't that mean it is gods will I'm here and you've undermined him?
