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How taxes work. | by subbywan | 2007-07-03 16:24:23 |
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The dichotomy I would like to see resolved WRT tax | by romandas | 2007-07-03 17:30:32 |
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How are you 'punishing' the wealthy? | by Arachnid | 2007-07-03 17:33:56 |
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Taxing someone higher than someone else | by romandas | 2007-07-03 17:43:14 |
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Not doing that is punishing the poor | by Arachnid | 2007-07-03 17:55:37 |
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No, it's being fair. | by romandas | 2007-07-03 18:04:58 |
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Unless the tax rate is 100% | by Arachnid | 2007-07-03 18:08:51 |
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Actually, the entire monetary system.. | by romandas | 2007-07-03 18:21:41 |
| Without a government, you don't have a single |
by Arachnid |
2007-07-03 19:08:02 |
| monetary system. You have multiple incompatible ones, or in the worst case, barter. None of the currencies are guaranteed. Without government regulation, the monetary system as we know it doesn't exist.
Nobody has a 'right' to another person's posessions or money, but the government has a right to a proportion of what you earn to pay for the common services we all use.
Following your reasoning, we should either have no tax (and hence no government, and hence anarchy), or a poll tax, with everyone paying the same flat amount, practically reducing us back to medieval times with serfdom. Neither sounds like a good idea to me. |
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How is a flat tax *rate* serfdom? | by esbita | 2007-07-03 19:44:06 |
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He was also saying that deducting more from those | by Arachnid | 2007-07-03 20:02:18 |
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It's simple common sense. | by esbita | 2007-07-03 20:45:40 |
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You're not looking at it system-wide. | by Arachnid | 2007-07-03 20:49:34 |
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How many of those people... | by esbita | 2007-07-03 20:58:47 |
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That's getting perilously close to the 'trickle | by Arachnid | 2007-07-03 21:14:41 |
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No argument the trickle-down effect isn't | by subbywan | 2007-07-03 21:18:16 |
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Because you've been arguing... | by esbita | 2007-07-03 21:29:18 |
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I think our conflict here... | by esbita | 2007-07-03 21:30:19 |
