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Re:America's billionaires pay an average income tax rate of ... by imapeopleperson on Thursday September 23, 2021 @08:29PM (#28637284)
Well said, but I don’t know why you’d offer up paying even more taxes.

If anything, taxing billionaires should help lower the burden on labor aristocrats. The real issue is government having a monopoly on tax revenue and not pushing a penny far enough.

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Re:America's billionaires pay an average income tax rate of ... by BirdPlusPlus on Thursday September 23, 2021 @10:42PM (#28638070)
>The real issue is government having a monopoly on tax revenue and not pushing a penny far enough. I definitely agree with this but is it even possible to incentivize that? Sometimes I wish we could put an honest "I" in IRS and sic 'em on the government.
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Re:America's billionaires pay an average income tax rate of ... by syshum on Monday September 27, 2021 @09:04AM (#28670161)
The Parent offering to pay more is more ethical than pointing over there and screaming them, send the men with guns after them to take their money, dont take my money I need it more than them....

>The real issue is government having a monopoly on tax revenue

No the real issue is government having a monopoly on money, and the money supply, combined with not having any actual constitutional limits on spending.

Spending is the root cause problem here.

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