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Re:In the Beginning, There Were Taxes by FredPret on Friday April 16, 2021 @08:45PM (#26840656)
So the only possible position for an informed, intelligent person is “higher taxes”?

Let’s go for broke and make them 100% then?

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Re:In the Beginning, There Were Taxes by epgui on Sunday April 18, 2021 @04:56AM (#26850905)
That's not at all what I'm suggesting.

What I'm saying is that when applying first-order thinking, it sounds like "more tax" would hurt. Therefore people who ask for more tax are most likely thinking a bit farther than the tip of their nose.

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Re:In the Beginning, There Were Taxes by FredPret on Sunday April 18, 2021 @09:37AM (#26852342)
On behalf of all us low-tax simpletons, I must ask if you have considered that there might be undesirable second-order effects of high tax rates.

But perhaps that idea is further than the tip of one’s nose.

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