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Re:Anthony Bourdain on not having debt by esrauch on Thursday March 16, 2017 @01:25PM (#13886908)
His point is that the same things apply to 30% tax: you are only 2/3 away from being a slave, if you don't pay your 30% your freedom is taken away.

There isn't a rational difference between 30 and 50, the only difference is "I feel that it is too much", right?

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Re:Anthony Bourdain on not having debt by braveo on Sunday March 19, 2017 @06:05PM (#13909947)
There is absolutely a rational difference between 30 and 50%.
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Re:Anthony Bourdain on not having debt by esrauch on Sunday March 19, 2017 @07:35PM (#13910509)
The numbers are clearly different, but not in the "one is slavery and the other is not" kind of way right?
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Re:Anthony Bourdain on not having debt by braveo on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @04:56PM (#13926134)
We as a society went to war with companies over how much time they can require of us. Nowadays companies can only require us to work roughly 23% of the hours in a week.

50% is 84 hours/week, we as a society have already deemed the difference between those to be significant enough to fight about.

The difference between 50% of your income and 30% of your income is significant.

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