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Taxes don't contribute to society?
LMAO.

Can't think of something that is more fundamentally designed to promote society as a whole.

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what it's designed to do and what it actually does are too different things.

you can argue that government spending is more efficient than consumer spending if you wish, but even if that's the case, the contribution to society is only the difference between the two, which is very small at best.

if the government is designed well, the efficiency of consumer spending and government spending is equal, so it shouldn't matter whether its the government or the consumer doing the spending. unfortunately most governments aren't particularly efficient.