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Why shouldn’t the need for tax revenue go down as the population it’s intended to serve declines?
by transcriptase 3mo ago
Why shouldn’t the need for tax revenue go down as the population it’s intended to serve declines?
- aprilthird2021 3mo ago2 main reasons 1) Populations are their most expensive at their oldest age and each subsequent generation is smaller and needs to pay for an old generation larger than their own 2) infrastructure and many of the things a government provides is not scalable down and up. A road is not (much) cheaper to maintain because less people drive on it
- amunozo 3mo agoOne word: ageing. Population declines but also age, so working population declines much more than total population.