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I have never paid more taxes (that I'm aware of) than I am legally obligated to and I never will. Your list of conditions for rationally paying more taxes hing
by cantrip 9y ago
I have never paid more taxes (that I'm aware of) than I am legally obligated to and I never will.
Your list of conditions for rationally paying more taxes hinges on so many assumptions that it's a moot point. You might as well say it's rational to burn money in a fire.
If you have more than you need, and you know that others don't, and you know that the government is not efficient enough to use it properly, and you know that corporations will keep it instead of paying higher wages to workers, and you know that non profits will eat the majority of it in overhead before it helps people, and you know that decreasing the amount of money in circulation will cause the value of all money to increase, you should rationally set fire to your extra cash.
- crdoconnor 9y ago>If you have more than you need, and you know that others don't, and you know that the government is not efficient enough to use it properly You don't pay taxes so that governments can spend money. Governments can spend as much money as they like - they print the damn stuff. The economy would function precisely as it does now if every dollar paid in tax were burned and every dollar spent by the government were printed. Taxes paid to extinguish money. It is supposed to be deflationary - a transfer of wealth to everybody else spending money in the economy.
- cantrip 9y agoNone of that is remotely true. Even discounting local and state governments, which use tax dollars to fund themselves and can't print money like you describe, even the federal government doesn't work like that.