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Re:What can we do to fight corrupt governments? by bruce511 on Saturday February 22, 2020 @12:23AM (#22389577)
Not to detract from your root question, but it's worth being accurate with the numbers. The number of individual tax payers is 7.6 million, not 4 million. There is also company taxes on top of that [1].

But that's not the whole picture. You also have to take into account non-personal taxes like VAT, booze, smokes, sugar and petrol to name but a few. These are significant revenue sources, and ultimately tax low-income people fairly harshly.

So to say 4 million people are paying for everyone else is an over simplification.

I'll comment on your main question in another post. [1] https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-10-28-crunch-th...

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Re:What can we do to fight corrupt governments? by pinkfoot on Sunday February 23, 2020 @09:20AM (#22396922)
Its a very common way to say "white people pay for everyone", without actually having to say so.

Which is why the 4 million taxpayers typically matches the number of white adults.

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Re:What can we do to fight corrupt governments? by apache99 on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @08:16AM (#22412898)
Dont forget coloured people and the middle class black income group. I was not trying to say white people are paying for everything. Its white people, coloured people and the black middle class paying for everything pretty much.
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