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Re:61% of Americans paid no income taxes in 2020 by zionic on Thursday August 19, 2021 @11:13AM (#28234891)
Indeed, yet it holds these concepts hostage whenever someone suggests we eliminate entire classes of taxes.

The truth is the tax system has two primary objectives:

1) to prevent upper middle class from the type of long term wealth accumulation that allows the plebs to enter (and challenge) the elite

2) To fund a hyper scale bureaucracy that constantly seeks the lower bound on the efficiency curve

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Re:61% of Americans paid no income taxes in 2020 by adolph on Thursday August 19, 2021 @11:28AM (#28235096)
To be clear, a large component of the "hyper scale bureaucracy" is nominally privatized within the military industrial complex.
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Re:61% of Americans paid no income taxes in 2020 by dragonwriter on Thursday August 19, 2021 @01:13PM (#28236509)
> to prevent upper middle class from the type of long term wealth accumulation that allows the plebs to enter (and challenge) the elite

The capitalist middle class (the petit bourgeoisie, the thing thar Americans tend to call the upper middle class because Americans refer to a very large segment of the working classc , including the whole of the proletarian intelligentsia, as “middle class”) aren't plebs, they are, more like the equites.

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