Re:Germany’s dividend-stripping tax scandal
by vertex-four on Thursday June 08, 2017 @08:13AM
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No, not because it's legal - because it's collectively agreed upon to be a necessary thing. That it's legal is a result of that - you're mixing cause and effect.
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The idea that collective agreement dictates morals is flawed and dangerous.
Re:Germany’s dividend-stripping tax scandal
by vertex-four on Thursday June 08, 2017 @09:35AM
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And the idea that only individual rights matter, and that people don't have a duty to others, is also flawed and dangerous. As with pretty much everything else, the solution is somewhere in the middle that doesn't suit extremist slogans very well.