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The destination of this money is equally important. Tax and hire a lot of lazy public servants is a moral hazard as well.
by fopen64 7y ago
The destination of this money is equally important. Tax and hire a lot of lazy public servants is a moral hazard as well.
- overthemoon 7y agoYou're not wrong, but "the government should be well run" is true no matter what.
- dsfyu404ed 7y agoMore taxes would be a much easier pill to swallow if the people advocating for said taxes at least paid lip service to increasing government efficiency. Some do, but most don't. At best you can get them to acknowledge that suburban police departments don't need MRAPs. There's a lot of fat (mostly related to institutional risk/responsibility avoidance IMO) that could be trimmed and that money could be put into things that actually improve quality of life for people.
- fopen64 7y agoYes but if you are left with less disposable money you don't have any escape whatsoever if the government is not well run.
- danaris 7y agoNo one that this proposal would affect would have any trouble escaping if the government became so poorly run that it started to cause serious problems. You recognize that this is aimed at higher marginal taxes on those who are already making very large amounts of money, right?
- fopen64 7y agoThese people are human beings too. And the middle class is looking: whatever happens in the top tax bracket, trickles down.
- tantalor 7y agoWith central baking the purpose of taxes is managing inflation, not funding government.