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This assumes that paying tax makes the world a better place. I am sure Bill Gates has played similar accounting tricks and look, he's about to rid the world of
by jbob2000 8y ago
This assumes that paying tax makes the world a better place. I am sure Bill Gates has played similar accounting tricks and look, he's about to rid the world of Malaria. Yes tax dollars are used for social good, but they also fund the military and provide subsidies for all sorts of nefarious industries.
- tashoecraft 8y agoIf you don't like what your tax dollars fund, elect different politicians.
- decebalus1 8y agoThe fact that tax money is perceived as mismanaged is never an excuse to avoid paying taxes. That's a different problem with it's own solution. At least a citizen has the theoretical power to vote out people who mismanage tax money. You don't get a say about how a billionaire spends his/hers money. Actually, most of them are hoarding it. And the corporations holding the money become more powerful, being able to greatly influence the aforementioned mechanism of voting. It's a bad thing. A very bad thing and I'm very sad people are not more outraged about this.
- nv-vn 8y agoI hear this all the time but I don't understand what hoarding means in this context. Surely you're not implying that the majority of any billionaire's wealth is just cash under their mattress? I'm fairly sure that most of any given billionaire's wealth is invested, often in equities or bonds. In that sense, they are letting others borrow their money and funding economic development. Same goes for money sitting in a bank that gets loaned out.
- sokoloff 8y agoWhy should I get a say in how a billionaire spends their money? That I don't get a say is a feature, not a bug, because the minute I get a say, someone else gets a say in my private affairs.