tax payment at home
Solzhe_shimarin The old guy next door who pays taxes in his hometown was pissed about the reduced number of city buses, but this is a beautiful self-inflicted isn't it? The interpretation is that it was a social experiment that confirmed that "if you give citizens the right to decide where their money is redistributed, most people will use that right to line their pockets, not the public good."
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