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Why don't we go back to that system?

• duncan_bayne 11y ago
  That's an excellent question ... my experience over several years helping campaign for a party that wanted to eliminate progressive taxation was that: * people are terrified of fundamental changes to systems that provide their 'benefits', even if the existing system involves literal slavery * people get really, really angry when you mention the 'slavery' thing; they don't seem to like really thinking about how the sausage is made, so to speak * slavery is easy when quality of life is so good; it's easy to get bent out of shape when 40% of your income is being taken when your income is diddley-squat; when you're living like a 1700s king already, meh * socialists have entirely and completely conflated the concept of a just society with compulsory taxation and state welfarism that it is almost impossible to get people to even acknowledge that the two can be considered separately * self-described capitalists are often only capitalists when it suits them, otherwise they are often happy to suckle from the State tit to a far more egregious extent than any 'welfare queen' ever did I don't do politics any more.