Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: May 19, 2025, 4:05 pm
Atheist Forums › Discussion › Politics v
What do you think should be the role of government? What values guides your choice?

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Thread Modes
What do you think should be the role of government? What values guides your choice?
Whateverist Away Donators
Known religious sympathizer/accomodationist
*****
Religious Views: Be civil or die!
Posts: 23918
Threads: 300
Joined: June 25, 2011
Reputation: 150
#15
RE: What do you think should be the role of government? What values guides your choice?
June 29, 2015 at 1:26 am
(June 27, 2015 at 12:07 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:
(June 27, 2015 at 2:37 am)whateverist Wrote: ... I would like to see government used to maintain an acceptable minimum level of wealth.  To that end, I'd like to make taxes unavoidable and extremely regressive.

...

I think you mean that you want taxes to be extremely progressive, not regressive.  We have regressive taxes now, with rich people paying a lower percentage of their income than poor people.


Quote:regressive

2(Of a tax) taking a proportionally greater amount from those on lower incomes


http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defini...ctCode=all

Quote:progressive

1.2(Of taxation or a tax) increasing as a proportion of the sum taxed as that sum increases


http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defini...ctCode=all

Ooops!  Yeah I meant I wanted to tax the shit out of the richest individuals.
Find
Reply


Atheist Forums › Discussion › Politics v
What do you think should be the role of government? What values guides your choice?

Messages In This Thread
RE: What do you think should be the role of government? What values guides your choice? - by Whateverist - June 29, 2015 at 1:26 am

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Who should be afraid? And what should they do? TaraJo 14 848 March 8, 2025 at 1:17 pm
Last Post: TaraJo
  why superpower countries do not overthrow Islamic government of Iran? Anti.Enslave 20 3456 October 18, 2024 at 11:01 am
Last Post: arewethereyet
  A thing about choice and laws in the USA ShinyCrystals 7 1520 October 15, 2023 at 10:14 am
Last Post: The Grand Nudger
  You think people who hate Queen Elizabeth 2 is same reason MAGA people hated Obama Woah0 13 2022 December 20, 2022 at 3:55 pm
Last Post: brewer
  What do you think about the police? FlatAssembler 169 23689 December 19, 2022 at 12:49 am
Last Post: FlatAssembler
  What you think of USA voting system? Woah0 10 1707 August 17, 2022 at 12:19 pm
Last Post: Pat Mustard
  What do you think about gun control? FlatAssembler 93 8737 February 21, 2022 at 10:06 pm
Last Post: The Architect Of Fate
  What do you think about the immigration crisis? FlatAssembler 37 6116 February 21, 2022 at 7:48 pm
Last Post: highdimensionman
  Should I stay or should I go? POLITICAL op/ed Brian37 53 10936 August 26, 2021 at 11:43 am
Last Post: Fake Messiah
  Founding fathers view of government Won2blv 38 4296 March 21, 2021 at 11:48 am
Last Post: Angrboda



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)