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actually, gas taxes do not pay for the full cost of road repairs. this is a common misconception which asshole driver's use as a reason why bicyclists shouldn't use public roads. in fact, road repairs are paid for by income taxes.

no thanks. i don't need you to pay more for "i am ass"
but you certainly are one

 

They pay the vast majority of it, The 'home owners' is if you live in town. But for the most and biggest, At least in iowa, They tax gas for 'road repair' and want to add more like idiots.

There are many loopholes and are there for a reason. If not, They would have closed them. If a person is handing out shit like xmas, Why turn it down? That's what the 'populous' wanted by electing such an idiot, They will pay for it! Sorry you get all butt hurt, If you don't like it, Should have voted for the smarter choice!

 

here is where i would normally respond with a witty remark to make yogi look stupid, but i think the job has already been done...

 

There is a difference between paying taxes to maintain the roads, and paying taxes to, say, support people who shit out kids left and right which they cannot afford to take care of themselves.

I mean, I am pretty much opposed to taxation across the board, since the inflation on the fiat money we earn is already a hidden form of taxation. Then again I abhor government, and especially government as it currently stands in these modern times.

When taxation is used to prop up the welfare state, corporations, as well as kill innocent children abroad, it's pretty easy to see why a lot of people bitch about where their hard-earned money goes since they have no say in how the money is spent.

I mean, I am against the welfare state in a huge way, but I am also against corporate welfare and the way my tax money is used to wage war on innocent civilians half a world away.

 

yes, quite a large difference i would say.

yeah, i can see that. everyone likes to bitch, me included. but what doesn't naturally follow from all that, is using it as an excuse to leach off government assistance, and become another burden on an already broken system.

i am also against these things.

 

I could give a shit less and will continue to do as I have for many years. Prove what point? That YOU want me to pay for bullshit and have no interest in or give a fuck about! You proved that, Find a rich person, Tax them until they are cashing a system check!

'Witty', Let see it? Ooo A keyboard badass who is an 'high upstanding citizen', So he claims. Who the stupid one when I can get you to foot all my bills and toys? That's funny shit right there IMO and all I have to do is apply to NASA and 'stupid' shit like that along with a 'promise jobs' class.
Im stupid, But know the exact way to play it that I lift no finger and make 2/3's of what I make now. I know the loopholes so it would be nice!
Be mr. 'do right', Wont get you any further in life and the world! Id rather laugh and say I didn't have to pay back shit, Than to waste countless hours working solely for them.
That is fucking stupid! I would HAVE to get full assistance, They take more working than you make doing not shit! Thus the reason I have no want or give any shit about you're 'system'! I can and will continue to do it MY way and have a better outcome!

 

don't call me 'system'

 

LOL

 

That isn't butter I put on your popcorn. It's piss.

 

ok the Ivy League is the extreme. But in England, unis are a similar price. In the States you are told "go to the best uni you can possibly afford"( go into debt over. And thats often the private ones. So say the "best" uni is 45k usd pa, you could be looking at a 4yr bachelors degree. Then a postgrad for 2 yrs, even 3 might be "strongly recommended" for some things. Just fees alone, thats 162k usd or 218k usd. Add in living expenses, thats.. I dont know 18k pa x 6 yrs or so, ie 108k or whatever.

THEN you can factor in lost earnings, and also the fact you aren't on the career ladder AND risk getting a less than brilliant job after uni. So that could be 20k, 30k, 40k pa average loss of earnings. And technically (by one defn atleast) after uni, most people are bankrupt, but can't declare bankruptcy.

Now the counter argument is that you might get some financial assistance, and will get some "loan indebtedness" type stuff. But on my figures, the costs could be 300k usd PLUS 6 or so years of lost earnings. If the economy isn't doing ok, thats a real hammer blow for many young people.

Britain is actually getting quite bad too. Course fees used to be free, now they are upto 9k GBP or so, pa. Yes, you get govt loans, but you've still gotta find a way to pay to eat etc (grants wont cover it). You can get a law degree at 21 (its a bachelors), whereas in the US its a graduate school. So atleast you can save 4yrs of bullshit. But even in England, students are now doing postgrad to try and set themselves apart from the flood of competition - in England, or every single country in the EU that wants to work here for less and then take the money home.

Major problem is that the job market for young grads is absolute shite. Many will work in call centres, or as factory operative, the most absolute shite jobs imaginable.... for quite a few yrs after uni too. Their non grad peers could also be scaling the career ladder, while they stagnate.

So for both groups, the outlook CAN be pretty shite, on occasion.

 

Making matters worse, their parents are now expected to fund their own retirement almost entirely out of their own savings, rather than rely on their employer, so increasing numbers of parents are telling their kids that they are on their own to fund their education. When I was going to school, that wasn't even legal here. When you applied for financial assistance of any kind (loan, scholarship, grant, etc.), the formulas were based on an assumption that your parents were going to pay as much of your expenses as possible.

 

sorry, gas taxes SHOULD pay for the roads, but roads are a free handout from government to oil companies, car makers, banks who make car loans, and also receive more support from general tax revenues then any other mode of transportation. not to mention, oil companies get more subsidies and handouts then they actually pay in taxes. i'm glad you know how to opporate earth moving equipment. so do i. but i doubt very much you'd even be able to fuel them without government subsidie and support. i doubt even very much more that you'd be able to make them yourself with your own knowledge, or even process the materials to form into their components. all of which are things that involve coordianted mutual effort of many people. none of which would happen without forming social organization for mutual bennifit in some manor. and in a money based economy, that means governments enabled to exist, by taxation.