Social Safety Nets
Posted: April 21, 2009 Filed under: My bandwagon, News/information and opinion, Randomization of randomness 3 Comments »My previous post was not about detest to taxation, it was more on the inept pricing of DVD rentals in that particular public library. I believe that proper functioning of a society requires certain social safety nets, for that you need taxation. But don’t get me wrong, I am strongly against ‘taxation of people to death’ by their government. Taxation definitely is required, but getting an appropriate and effective taxation scheme is more of a challenge.
Today morning, while driving to work, my car spun off the ramp and the engine shut off after hitting the curb. My car was facing straight to incoming ‘office time’ traffic, eager to get off the ramp. There was a high probability that some vehicle would definitely crash into mine on the ramp (while hurrying to get to their work). I dialed 911 and a State Trooper got their in two minutes to slow down the incoming traffic from the ramp. A County Police Car got their in five minutes, giving way to the State Trooper. The County Police stayed there till the towing company towed my car away.
If there was no taxation then there won’t be anything called Police, or any other social safety nets. I doubt anyone would have stopped their vehicle in safe (visible) place and help slow down the incoming traffic. So as long as my tax money is spent wisely, I don’t mind contributing. And if you expect similar help (god forbid if something like that happen), then it would be foolish to decry taxation.
Thank god, I and my car got away without any major incident. God is great.
I agree with you. We will always need the safety net called ‘good government’.
Happy to know that there wasn’t any major incident.
Yes, like you have described, if the tax money is spent wisely, nobody will mind for contribution.
Back in our country,(now-a-days) tax has been imposed in almost every sectors, but the tragedy is that no one knows where it is being spent.
There is no doubt that God is Great, but the amount you are paying as tax sometimes becomes even greater:)
I agree, getting taxes to a level that will be satisfactory for the state but also won’t cause people to riot must be extremely hard. I bet they have a lot of people working on this every year.