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Interesting, that in all income tax discussions the underlying premise of income tax is not questioned. For me it's a form of extortion. If I avail of certain
by dennis_jeeves 10y ago
Interesting, that in all income tax discussions the underlying premise of income tax is not questioned.
For me it's a form of extortion. If I avail of certain services provided by the government, I would expect a bill only for the services I availed. And just like my ISP I should have the option of not opting for the for their services.
- TulliusCicero 10y agoWhether income tax is generally acceptable is a much broader (and philosophical) topic than the simpler question of whether it should be simpler to handle (obviously yes unless you make money from its complexity).
- dennis_jeeves 10y agoIn that case the debate would never end. Even before we get down to tax complexity, how do we decide if 10% of income as tax is good enough, versus 20%? Notice the rabbit hole of arguments that one can get sucked into.
- TulliusCicero 10y ago> Even before we get down to tax complexity, how do we decide if 10% of income as tax is good enough, Why would we have to do that? The reality is that we already have an income tax, and we can definitely simply its filing process without changing its current rates. So far this sounds like a standard libertarian tactic where you try to turn every debate on political policy specifics into a debate around whether government should be doing anything at all. It's not any different than internet marxists who, given a topic that revolves around business, will always reply "well X should just handled by government anyway FULL COMMUNISM NOW". It's completely unproductive and borderline trolling.