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The most common excuse I hear in defense of taxation is that it's necessary to pay for modern things, like roads, schools, and other infrastructure. However, we had these things prior to crushing taxation.


All governments need some form of taxation to fund what they're doing, but there's clearly something wrong with how it's implemented today. Probably the biggest mistake I see people make on the subject (even among the right and far right) is the belief that it must be centralized more and more toward the top.


That's not how people work. That's not how reality works. Mathematically, it's called the inverse square law. The farther away you get from something, the less effect it has on you, and you on it. With respect to people (and all life forms), the closer you are to someone the more in common you have with them, and the farther away you are, the less in common. Of course, this assumes we're not being maliciously diversified, and there are a few exceptions to this, but the rule remains true. You have more in common with your family, friends, neighbors, community, and people than you do with those putside those boundaries. Location matters. It's one of the factors involved in the homogeneity of a group.


This is one of the primary reasons why local and state governments should hold the most power and centralized federal (or God forbid globalist) governments should hold the least power, because the larger the area (and population) becomes, the less in common the people have, and the less effective universally applied laws, policies, and regulations become. Elections and public policies aren't meant to be divided so closely for and against (49% to 51%, assuming the numbers they give us are true). As distance decreases, homogeneity should increase, and the beliefs of the people should be more aligned, and government (if not corrupt) can better enact the will of the people, and thus can be given more power. The larger the distances, the less in common, and the less power government should hold, only enacting policies along common belief and mutual interests.


This, in turn, would also solve most welfare issues, as communities are supposed to take care of themselves, not by nebulous foreign/federal entities thousands of miles away. Local governments are also much less prone to corruption, as the people are within a days walk of their politicians.


This all doesn't necessarily mean a homogeneous people can't form strong governments that govern larger areas, only that it relies on stronger homogeneity that's often not seen on that scale.