UBI Does Not Require Tax Rates of 40 to 60 Percent

Re:UBI Does Not Require Tax Rates of 40 to 60 Percent by feet on Saturday December 24, 2022 @01:52PM (#34119861)

In communism everything is owned by the state, that makes everyone a member of the state which means we all get an equal vote in determining distribution and allocation. Communism is democracy taken to the logical extreme

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Re:UBI Does Not Require Tax Rates of 40 to 60 Percent by anankaie on Saturday December 24, 2022 @08:48PM (#34123231)

And in practice, this effectively never happens (are there good examples of it happening?). Somehow the revolution keeps getting stuck in the totalitarian phase.

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Re:UBI Does Not Require Tax Rates of 40 to 60 Percent by feet on Saturday December 24, 2022 @08:53PM (#34123267)

Yea the CIA definitely never gets involved either

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Re:UBI Does Not Require Tax Rates of 40 to 60 Percent by jxidjhdhdhdhfhf on Sunday December 25, 2022 @12:49PM (#34129336)

So you're saying communism can't survive in the real world where foreign intelligence agencies exist?

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Re:UBI Does Not Require Tax Rates of 40 to 60 Percent by richbell on Sunday December 25, 2022 @01:13PM (#34129580)

> So you're saying communism can't survive in the real world where foreign intelligence agencies exist?

I mean, this is an incredibly disingenuous conclusion. By that logic democracy is flawed and can never exist in South America, the Middle East, or any other number of places where the CIA staged coups and assassinated leaders.

It's hard for any system to thrive, regardless of its merit, when the world's de-facto superpower has dedicated billions into its destruction.

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