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

government

. The

government

looks after citizens from the taxes it collects.

However

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

one

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

For instance

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

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education

, 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

government

counterpart. In effect, asking

such

parents to pay taxes for universal

education

is like making someone

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pay

to construct a park he never visits.

However

,

one

does not need to go very far to see that

this

argument

does not hold water.

Firstly

, when

one

pays taxes,

one

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

government

collects taxes from various sources

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and then decides

then

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

For example

, the

government

may

tax

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

Secondly

,

this

very same person may be using a disproportionate amount of

some

one or some or every or all without specification

any

other

government

service for which he pays less

tax

.

For instance

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

tax

.

Thus

,

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the basic nature

of the taxation system flies in the face of

this

argument

. The ethical angle of the

argument

proposed must

also

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

education

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

argument

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

education

.

However

,

one

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

such

people anyway.

For example

,

such

people may be paying less or no income

tax

. Specifically targeting

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

also

un-ethical.