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Instead of paying taxes people should be forced to do mandatory community service. That will help close the wealth-gap and force wealthy people to intermix with
by wangchow 10y ago
Instead of paying taxes people should be forced to do mandatory community service. That will help close the wealth-gap and force wealthy people to intermix with the working class.
- googletazer 10y agoSounds a lot like sending engineers to potato fields to collect potatoes and get to know the country side. I don't know a single instance of where compulsory "mixing" of wealthy and less wealthy yielded a decrease in the wealth gap.
- Turing_Machine 10y agoYep. Both Mao and Pol Pot thought sending the intellectual class out to do forced manual labor was a wonderful idea. It didn't end well.
- rtkwe 10y agoThat's really unworkable. There are some services you could replace with 'volunteer' community services but you still need money for roads, water/sewer/ police, fire services, and most of what a city generally provides that can't just be staffed with people working their community service stints.