Re:Money can buy happiness, but not unconditionally
by nightski on Sunday October 28, 2018 @03:31PM
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I actually understand all of this. But if you are investing in society, then that is different than consumption. That should be encouraged imho.
Actually if you dig deeper into fair tax it is theorized that cost of goods would largely remain the same. this is due to the removal of corporate income taxes altogether. Also companies would not pay any sales tax on goods/services.
Wealth gets "consumed" by bad investments. Those "bad" investments might even be considered as expenditure, almost as consumption, by the wealthy, e.g. subsidizing a newspaper - but what does sales tax (or some other consumption tax) look like when it's applied to journalists' salaries? Doesn't really make sense, does it.