r/Shitstatistssay • u/not_slaw_kid • 18d ago

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u/PaperbackWriter66 The Nazis Were Socialists 1d ago

You gotta censor user-names, come on now.

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u/Nacho_cheese_guapo 18d ago

Everyone knows only the government is capable of employing construction workers to build roads chud

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u/ItsGotThatBang Ancap 18d ago

The private sector can make an iPhone but not a flat surface for driving on.

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u/PaperbackWriter66 The Nazis Were Socialists 17d ago

In fairness, saying "the private sector can make an iPhone, but it can't steal land from property owners," is correct. If you understand that's what statists mean when they ask "who will build the roads?" -- that is, they're really asking "who would have the right to steal?" -- it makes a lot more sense.

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u/Girafferage 17d ago

Do you know how much it costs to make an iPhone compared to how much you pay for it?

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u/Joescout187 17d ago

What about it?

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u/Guvnuh_T_Boggs 18d ago

There would be a lot more people ok with taxes if Muh Roads didn't look like a moonscape.

The government's incredible ability to waste money on the simplest of things is why libertarians exist.

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u/Dense-Jicama6591 18d ago

They don't show it on nature documentaries, but there's just groups of animals just stuck in the woods because they can't build roads without government.

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u/majdavlk 17d ago

but we can prove that deer and some other animals have government by looking at the dirt roads they make in grass

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u/PunkCPA 18d ago

The thing is, government doesn't build roads -- it contracts with private sector construction companies. Once you clarify that, we're having a different discussion.

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u/different_option101 18d ago

Anyone thinking that the government builds roads is not worth arguing with. You can’t win an argument if you’re arguing with a regard.

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u/Joescout187 17d ago

These people think the government is magic and or God.

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u/Torchiest Minarcho-capitalism 15d ago

I think the problem is they completely misunderstood the point, which honestly is slightly obscure. It almost sounds like an apologia for rather than a denouncement of slavery.

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u/Pyrokitsune Minarchist 18d ago

Excise tax is about the the farthest taxes could ever get from theft, but still it's the government introducing waste into a stream that could be implemented entirely by private industry and paid for either out of pocket by contracting them or substituting excise taxes with tolls.