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>Is universally lower taxation inherently unethical? When services that take care of people depend on taxes then yeah lower taxation without a backup is inhere
by mrlala 6y ago
>Is universally lower taxation inherently unethical?
When services that take care of people depend on taxes then yeah lower taxation without a backup is inherently unethical.
- 1123581321 6y agoEfficacy of these services is not a given relative to low tax + charity. Additionally, lower government revenue should require cuts from other areas first, like military and corporate subsidies. We shouldn’t accept that any of the supposedly missing Apple tax revenue should affect the poor or uneducated. To threaten such seems unethical.
- mrlala 6y agoNot sure how you sleep at night with logic like that, but ok.
- 1123581321 6y agoWe should each be able to disagree, and even consider the views of the other to have harmful consequences, and still live contentedly.
- anoncareer0212 6y agoFrankly, your argument is nonsensical, if you have something past tone policing your own conclusions, it'd be helpful. Currently we're stuck at figuring out how an infinite prisoner's dilemma leads to an outcome that caps losses to one agent, and the cap somehow falls below "things we don't need to do" or around "things we have to do"
- 1123581321 6y agoI apologize for the confusion. There are two situations. The argument is that if human services are important enough that reducing service is unethical, and a government also provides other services that do not meet that standard, then in the event of revenue reduction, those other services should be reduced before human services. This specifically has to do with the Irish situation the link is about: corporate tax from externally derived revenue. Additionally, human services are not necessarily best provided by governments, so in a situation where all corporate tax revenue were reduced, meaning more money to be allocated by shareholders and employees, and human services budgets were reduced commensurately, charity would make up for it, or more than make up for it. This applies to a potential case of internally-derived (internal to the EU) corporate tax revenue being generally reduced. I realize you will disagree strongly/viscerally with both points. That’s okay. I also stand by my belief that we can all strongly disagree and still extend goodwill to each other, even if you don’t find that attitude helpful.
- splintercell 6y agoThese kinds of comments don't belong to HN.
- bodono 6y agoSeems like Ireland is doing fine, it's one of the best places to live in the world. So it is ethical then, by your argument. By the way, in case anyone claims that the tax revenue was 'stolen' from other countries- it's not up to the Irish government to charge higher taxes in order to subsidize other countries services (be it directly or by presenting itself as more expensive tax-wise than it needs to be).