Study Suggests Inequality Can Be Fixed with Wealth Redistribution, Not Tax Cuts

Re:Study Suggests Inequality Can Be Fixed with Wealth Redist... by SigmundA on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @05:54PM (#15503563)

I never got the taken by force argument. Is your mortgage or rent taken by force?

There are places in this world that to do not collect tax and you are free to go there.

So long as you are allowed to leave, you have a choice otherwise you have implicitly agreed to the social contract to pay taxes by staying and benefit from being within the protected borders of the government and all service provided therein.

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Re:Study Suggests Inequality Can Be Fixed with Wealth Redist... by tooltalk on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @06:29PM (#15503821)

Sure, and our current social contract says you pay less in taxes if you are super wealthy. There are places in this world where the rich are taxed to death, you are free to leave and settle in such utopia.

Is that what you are saying?

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Re:Study Suggests Inequality Can Be Fixed with Wealth Redist... by SigmundA on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @07:06PM (#15504056)

I made no statement about the "super wealthy". I was simply arguing that taxes are not in fact taken by force (at least in the US where citizens are free to emigrate).

Your hyperbolic example of places "where the rich are taxed to death" also seems to confirm the argument that choice is available.

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