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It's a gray area. Who is to say what the right amount of taxes to pay is? Too little, not enough government support for programs + public services. Too many, bu
by MuffinFlavored 7y ago
It's a gray area. Who is to say what the right amount of taxes to pay is? Too little, not enough government support for programs + public services. Too many, businesses can't flourish.
When will poor people ever not be mad at billionaires for not doing enough?
I think a big part of it is that American perception on how efficient the government is at solving problems given funding (tax dollars). Some people think the government spends too much on military, some people think the government doesn't spend enough.
With the country so heavily divided (50% left, 50% right), you have wide-scale conflicting opinions on "should I pay more in taxes" or "should I pay less".
- pwinnski 7y ago> When will poor people ever not be mad at billionaires for not doing enough? The big unexamined assumption here is that it is at all reasonable for billionaires to exist within a society that has poor people. Billionaires are a relatively recent thing, and Rockefeller (the first) faced enormous resistance to both his wealth and the means by which he accumulated it.
- Torwald 7y ago> The big unexamined assumption here is that it is at all reasonable for billionaires to exist within a society that has poor people. I would say 'yes' that's a completely reasonable thing. The one being a billionaire doesn't cause the others to be poor. Wealth (and money) is not a zero-sum game.
- MuffinFlavored 7y agoJeff Bezos innovating e-commerce + logistics (which resulted in billions of dollars in wealth for him) does not really have much to do with "certain people do not receive the education/opportunity to overcome poverty" in my opinion