In a recent thread there was, for a time, a discussion regarding the price of civilized society. Unfortunately, as is usually the case, it was closed, due to the usual suspect(s).
As far as taxation, and, actually, both economics and government are concerned, my philosophy on them comes from Frederic Bastiat, Milton Freidman, Thomas Sowell, and Arthur Laffer. They've been proven reliable and correct for decades, or, in the case of Bastiat, damned near two centuries. And, yeah, they're all (except Bastiat, having lived long before video) prominently featured in videos from various sources on youtube. If you're going to use that as a means to attempt to refute their positions, that only serves to prove the weakness of your claims.
This thread, too, will almost certainly be locked, probably in short order.
