Why is busymom0's comment flagged and dead? There's nothing that breaks HN rules in that comment. Lately I've seen completely appropriate arguments on HN being flagged, why is that?
The sheer number of things everybody interacts with everyday that are very directly related to tax-funded government actions is immense, and very blatantly so.
Yet they lead with "what have taxes ever done for anybody?" It's not a genuine or honest comment.
I feel that people just don't like it if someone disagrees with "taxing the rich", and that's why it was flagged.
There are many things people say about taxes I can agree with. There are many things people say about taxes that I disagree with, but I can understand their reasoning. There are even things people say about taxes that I disagree with, and I even suspect their purported reasoning is actually just post-hoc justification.
And then there's that statement. And I cannot fathom any way in which it is possible to honestly believe that without being utterly delusional, to a degree that makes me concerned the person is possibly incapable of caring for themselves. I can only conclude these people are most likely being intentionally disingenuous.
At least flat Earthers aren't continually confronted with blatantly obvious contradictions in virtually every aspect of their daily life.
If your country is not designed to have taxes and do anything usefull with it you can't take it as an example how the "system wouldn't work if this one part would be different".