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RE: Taxes, fucking you from every direction since before it was cool!
This article was hard to understand with my custom browser extension that replaces all variants of the word "tax" with "theft."
though I'd prefer if [schools] were better and were less like prisons
Hear, hear!
though I'd prefer bullet trains to roads made of tar and rocks
You listen here, dickhead. You keep your filthy, uncircumcised glans off of my roads. I am very serious about roads. In all my years, I have heard many arguments for taxation ranging all the way from defence, to public safety, to education, to helping the poor. Only one of them gave me pause...
But how are we going to pay for the roads?
You're probably one of those heathens who agree with this misanthrope:
Don't. Fuck. With my roads.
Notice I specifically mentioned what the roads were made of. I believe we need to stop wasting money on roads that break down so easily and then leaving them in disrepair.
I still like bullet trains more than EVERYONE driving a car in a city though, or even between major cities. Traffic sucks. Crashing sucks. I would prefer if we could hop on a train and go between cities in minutes.
I'm fine with taxing gas and cars to pay for roads. Especially if we actually built them correctly. But we need public transpo even more.
As to the video...ehh...we will get self-driving cars. Not everyone likes driving, and there are a lot of features that will make them safer. We don't necessarily need to give over complete control though. We could allow a driver to enable and disable features if we wanted to. For example, we've long had cruise control in cars. We might have a button to have the car automatically do that equidistance crap. Or we could stop at a light and turn on automatic acceleration. Or we could enjoy driving, and turn it all off, except on long boring drives, when we want the car to mostly drive itself.
But I still think bullet trains are the solution. Self-driving cars are cool, but they can't go 500 mph.