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For the same reason that you (correctly) use to justify high taxes on high earners. No one works alone. Much of the work that people produce is actually the wor
by harryh 11y ago
For the same reason that you (correctly) use to justify high taxes on high earners. No one works alone. Much of the work that people produce is actually the work of the society that surrounds and enables them.
- Gargoyle 11y agoBut all this realistically does is concentrate wealth further. Now Google reaps all the rewards of the content produced. How is this fair?
- rayiner 11y agoThat's a fair point, but I'm not a big fan of taxing specific things versus a general tax. If I make a bunch of money by selling books, fine, tax me on it. But it doesn't give you rights to my books, or to cut across my lawn...
- harryh 11y agoWhile it takes money to run a society it also takes ideas. So it makes sense, at some level, to collect tax payments in the currency of ideas.