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Originally Posted by Ooloo
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"Tax the rich" is just punitive jealousy. The rich already contribute about 70% of all tax revenue. When you increase tax rates on the rich, they just find legal untaxable avenues to invest in and pay fewer total taxes. When you tax them at lower rates, they are more likely to just pay those taxes, and you collect more net tax revenue because they pay an enormous percentage of all taxes.
This is really basic economics.
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not really at all. if a highly evolved, highly stratified civilization has .1% of the population personally owning and controlling most of the machinery of the earth, the argument clearly falls apart. We are arriving in time at that civilization. It is clearly not an argument from the personal but one from practicality, much as you might like to make it all about ego wars by framing it in a childish way.
Yes, the rich will have to pay an "unfairly high" share of taxes in a highly stratified future, if your conception of the world is like goo goo ga ga. Epic win. On the other hand, they have to do this because what they own is so
insanely valuable that no human being ever should have been declared to "own" so much in the first place, so I wouldn't cry too much for the cruelty of it. "Just desserts" for the vast majority would be a sentence too ugly to write here, so I hardly think it is a wise rhetorical move to bring in fairness.
Luckily, I am pretty sure this post is just bait
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] nobody perceives their civic duty in such a low, self-serving manner as to see everyone around them in the same pathological way no? Some odd norms in play.
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