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Or increasing taxes on the wealthy and using that to provide a better safety net.
by rwilson4 8y ago
Or increasing taxes on the wealthy and using that to provide a better safety net.
- free652 8y agoWealthy isnt a clear definition. You are wealthy to a someone on this planet
- rwilson4 8y agoI would gladly pay higher taxes if the money were spent on homelessness or education or healthcare instead of the military.
- tracer4201 8y agoBingo.
- BlueJacketPig 8y agoWhy wait for the government to get its act together? Why aren't you spending your own money on those things right now? Pick your favorite organization and write a check. Or, even better, get involved and give money directly to those in need.
- KirinDave 8y agoBecause unless everyone simultaneously acts with coordination, these problems are too big and complex to address without some kind of coordination. Even if that coordination is decentralized, it has a cost. Weirdly, no one ever donates to "coordination of cancer fund collection."
- krageon 8y agoI can imagine that people would be in a similar boat that I am in: I am charitable, I enjoy giving time and effort to good causes that directly help people (eg volunteer work in orphanages, feeding the poor). When I want to donate money (I am in a position to do that far more than I do currently), I am left with the insight that actually there is no charity that isn't evil in some way. Examples of evil include very high CEO/upper management salaries, stuff like "fundraisers", performing acts of charity that sound good but actually do nothing (or actively harm), etc. Every time I come to the conclusion that it's easy to do good, but practically impossible to donate to something good in an effective way. With the way my life has been progressing and how I suspect a lot of people's lives progress as they age (less free time, more relative income) this effectively means that charity stops out of necessity as time goes on. I would love to have a solution to this, as it does bother me.
- rwilson4 8y agoI do donate to homeless shelters and cancer research foundations, and I hope other people are also donating to causes important to them! But I don’t have enough money to make a dent in the problem. Collective action is the only way to make progress.
- BadassFractal 8y agoIt has worked so well for San Francisco, we should sink more money into it.
- tdb7893 8y agoIt seems clear enough in context to me. Is it worth it to get into a semantic argument about what consititues wealthy on what is a tech website? Or is the definition of wealthy actually unclear in this context?
- ep103 8y agoIt is if you're trying to derail the argument!
- KirinDave 8y agoFine, the top 0.05% earners in the US.
- Latteland 8y agoWealthy in my opinion is at least the top 1%. Most experienced tech workers are there.
- KirinDave 8y agoRight, but most tech workers still pull the majority of their yearly earnings via the income tax AMT brackets. I'm not sure that's the place where people have complaints about the system. It's more about the systemic unfairness of investment based income.
- Latteland 8y agoAh, I get it. Yes, I agree with your direction, that charging lower tax rates so people who claim 'capital gains' instead of salary pay less, because they are investors or some bs.