If people didn't give voluntarily, GoFundMe wouldn't be as successful as it is.
This is where the critical thinking skills really start to fall apart. They use taxes because that's how they've historically been funded. That does not prove they couldn't exist without taxes. You've made a logical leap that isn't given.
(01-04-2019, 01:39 PM)Ken Wrote: No. The point is, this la la land that you all want where taxes aren't collected isn't a fucking reality and you basically just admitted as much. You and Rex tried to use fire departments as an example of people's good will funding a good cause with no need for government intervention and... that's just not true.
This is where the critical thinking skills really start to fall apart. They use taxes because that's how they've historically been funded. That does not prove they couldn't exist without taxes. You've made a logical leap that isn't given.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth