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I think people who broadly generalize low taxes as always a good thing are the shortest sighted people ever. Like they don't ever think two steps ahead regarding potential ramifications.

Lower taxes = less upkeep of infrastructure

Sure, you keep more money in your pocket, that you then need to spend fixing the flat tire because of all the potholes in your neighborhood.

Lack of public school funding = All the bright children move away from the neighborhood after high school

The ones who remain are lower socioeconomic. Increased criminality, poorer upkeep of a neighborhood, drive down property values. Couple hundred more in your pocket, but your home's value has depreciated 5 figures.

There is this notion of personal responsibility that presumes a person's presence in an environment doesn't affect it. Republicans complain about the poor so much, when really I think their ideology would be more willing to be paternalistic about how money is spent for the "greater good" of a community, because you can't trust every actor to behave perfectly in a system for the greatest net benefit for all. Some individuals, because of their ignorance or x,y,z variables, will make decisions that are worse off for them and the community. And the republican solution instead is jump ship. This works for the higher socioeconomic republicans, but the large majority of poorer ones voting based off of social and/or religious reasons are financially fucking themselves and their communities over because they can't just relocate to a bubble community.
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