A government's role is only to provide defence capability and urban infrastructure

A healthy and balanced society requires a symbiotic relationship between citizens and the

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. The

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looks after citizens from the taxes it collects.

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, a pertinent question is often asked- who should pay which taxes, and should

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be required to pay taxes for services he does not avail of.

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, how fair is it to require citizens to pay taxes for

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government

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government, education

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, when their children do not avail of these facilities and actually attend private school? After all there in no denying the fact that parents sending their children to private schools are anyway burdened with the higher fees they charge. As these schools have their own stipulations for uniform, books and activities, the cost of attendance to these schools is radically higher than their

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counterpart. In effect, asking

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parents to pay taxes for universal

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is like making someone

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pay

to construct a park he never visits.

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,

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does not need to go very far to see that

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argument

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does not hold water.

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, when

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pays taxes,

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is not directly paying for services he or she uses. The

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collects taxes from various sources

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and then decides

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decides in which area to spend the money and who its beneficiaries will be.

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may

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a rich hotel or an entrepreneur to fun supply of water to a village.

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,

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very same person may be using a disproportionate amount of

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other

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service for which he pays less

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.

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, he may be using more of the road than another person, but paying the same

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.

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,

basic nature

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the basic nature

of the taxation system flies in the face of

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argument

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. The ethical angle of the

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proposed must

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be considered. A person whose family does not take the benefit of universal

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may be rich enough to send his children to a costlier private school. The very idea of taxation is to have a more egalitarian society, which is achieved by taxing the rich and serving the poor. The

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may be made for the old and the retired people, who do not avail of universal

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.

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,

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must remember that governments around the world are careful to impose less taxes on

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people anyway.

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,

such

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people may be paying less or no income

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. Specifically targeting

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finance

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finance, government

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school appears, not only to be out of line, but

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un-ethical.