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Left-leaning Americans do the same thing. “Why don’t we just tax the rich, like they do in Europe, so that the government can provide services!” which doesn’t r
by umanwizard 7y ago
Left-leaning Americans do the same thing. “Why don’t we just tax the rich, like they do in Europe, so that the government can provide services!” which doesn’t recognize that the problem is actually different and more complicated.
“The US wastes massive amounts of resources for very poor levels of service, and nobody has any idea how to fix it” isn’t as nice of a sound byte.
- thebooktocome 7y agoNot being able to recover revenue from wealthy people who can afford to bend or break the tax code is a problem. The IRS can effectively make money for the federal government simply by auditing the rich (I seem to remember that the marginal dollar spent on enforcement returned six dollars in revenue), but they don't because politics.