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Re:Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related dom... by jarym on Monday May 26, 2025 @05:58AM (#44095769)
‘Progressively taxed’ means tax it until the masses can’t afford it anymore. No thanks, there’s been nothing progressive about progressive taxation in decades.

The abuse of the term has made the very idea repulsive.

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Re:Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related dom... by literalAardvark on Monday May 26, 2025 @06:18AM (#44095883)
It doesn't apply to the masses by definition. Just whoever has "too much" of anything, where "too much" can indeed be defined in a problematic way.
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Re:Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related dom... by jarym on Monday May 26, 2025 @07:46AM (#44096467)
that’s not true, or requires being dim towards the economic reality.

The UK is a great example of how progressive taxation hasn’t really worked out - our former PM paid about 20% while earning millions while someone earning £100k can be hit with 60%[1]

These ‘great ideas’ require economically illiterate proponents to pass muster.

[1] https://www.buzzacott.co.uk/insights/exposing-the-60-income-...

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Re:Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related dom... by literalAardvark on Thursday May 29, 2025 @09:19AM (#44125826)
The problem there is that the UK doesn't apply the progressive taxation to everyone, not that progressive taxation is a bad idea.
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Re:Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related dom... by rad_gruchalski on Monday May 26, 2025 @07:07AM (#44096188)
Who decides when one has too many of something?
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Re:Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related dom... by Draiken on Monday May 26, 2025 @07:57AM (#44096558)
Democratically elected people?

Either we as a society decide on these matters or "the market" does. Turns out the market always decides there's no such thing as too much.

Who would've guessed it?

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Re:Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related dom... by briandear on Monday May 26, 2025 @07:15AM (#44096228)
The people who have less of it.
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Re:Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related dom... by rad_gruchalski on Monday May 26, 2025 @07:25AM (#44096322)
That’s what I thought. So level to the bottom. This website starts turning into garbage. Everyone’s robin hood here.
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Re:Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related dom... by jodrellblank on Monday May 26, 2025 @08:42AM (#44096936)
At the point where you’re against Robin Hood, you should be asking yourself “am I the bad guy?”.

“You want to stop me monopolising medication to sell at the maximum possible cost? Everyone’s bloody Mother Theresa in this utter hellhole.”

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Re:Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related dom... by account42 on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @04:43AM (#44105073)
It may surprise you to learn that we do live in a society.
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