Re:Sweden Has a 70 Percent Tax Rate and It Is Fine
by whamlastxmas on Saturday January 05, 2019 @10:06PM
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If you can produce income in the wilderness without any aid from society or any interaction with other humans in any way then I would say you're entitled to not be taxed. Otherwise we all owe society for what it's provided to us and taxation is a morally upstanding concept.
Re:Sweden Has a 70 Percent Tax Rate and It Is Fine
by hyperpallium on Saturday January 05, 2019 @10:15PM
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I know you're making the point that just about everyone should be taxed, but to make your argument even stronger: a wilderness-liver probably has equipment (including clothes, shoes), knowledge/skills discovered/invented by others and learnt via others, and was raised within society. There may be a counter-argument for some knowledge/skill as a sort of "human heritage", like language, general knowledge, arithmetic, that isn't itself created by the state or this state (though its transmission may have been) and shouldn't be taxed.
I have some sympathy for this fellow.
EDIT also, there's no reason collaboration with other individuals should necessarily attract taxation. Human collaboration predates all states.
Re:Sweden Has a 70 Percent Tax Rate and It Is Fine
by chasing on Saturday January 05, 2019 @10:11PM
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1) Not thieving. Jesus Christ.
2) Ocasio-Cortez brought up a 70% tax on income over $10,000,000. Literally no one is seriously talking about taxing a straight 70% of anyone's income. Except for the people who are trying to confuse you into misunderstanding the facts.
Re:Sweden Has a 70 Percent Tax Rate and It Is Fine
by happytoexplain on Sunday January 06, 2019 @12:34AM
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The angry characterisation of taxation as theft with no further comment is lazy and disingenuous, at best.
bunch of thieves.