(May 5, 2017 at 9:13 am)Tazzycorn Wrote:(May 4, 2017 at 2:15 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: And what of the cost to administer this program?
It'll be a lot less than the cost of allowing 20%+ of the population live at below the poverty line, which is what is happening now.
(May 4, 2017 at 2:34 pm)Isis Wrote: I suppose you could raise taxes but you would have to raise them a lot to fund something like this,
The richest ten percent (who own roughly 2/3 of the worlds wealth and derive a similar income) functionally pay no taxes. How about we get them to pay, make them for once, in their shitty little parasitic lives, contribute to the society which has given them so much?
Or is the fantasy of Horatio Alger too strong in this world?
What do you mean, that they functionally pay no taxes? They pay in, but get it all back? While they may have a year with a bad loss, I would be willing to bet that overall, they contributed to society quite abbot more than you. I would give up my salary, to have what my boss pays in taxes.
Now if there are loop holes, that allow people to sideskirt the spirit of the tax laws, there is nothing wrong with discussing or fixing that. However I don't agree at all, that just because one has money, that they should be paying higher, just because of that. .
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