Thread by @RomboughSunni

I’m going to answer this question, but the answer isn’t pretty.

https://twitter.com/thejesshuffman/status/1110973818242129920

Public services are expensive. It’s primarily why we pay such high taxes. It pays the doctors, nurses, police, firefighters, teachers, maintenance contracts and government services that keep our lives manageable.

But we didn’t always pay such high income tax. In fact there was a time Canadians only paid property tax. Of course that was restricted to property owners. At the time, that was the wealth class.

Everybody else was paid subsistence or below subsistence wages.

Health & education were reserved for those who could pay. Serfs & indentured servants didn’t require educations and if they died due to illness, were quickly replaced.

This is what consequentialist libertarians want to return to. That’s the meaning of MAGA.

Taxes payed for armed national security, federal government was there to administer army and facilitate trade.

Quality of life was non existent in anything other than wealth class.

WW1 changed that. Many died, never to return.

A shortage of workers led to necessity to compete for employees, which raised wages, ever so slightly. But it also increased participation of women. Widows with and without children had to eat.

The women earned half of what men earned. Worked in factories with kids in tow.

Many children also had to work to contribute to rent and food costs for subsistence.

Outrage at deaths of women & children in perilous working conditions led to labour movement among other things.

So that’s why consequentialist libertarians want everything private.

They’ve romanticized the past and want to replicate the concentration of wealth primarily in the wealth class.

Read a Charles Dickens novel. That’s what they want. Obedient servants and polite orphans, “Please sir, can I have some more”.