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Increase taxes on wealthy people and give it to poorer people so that almost everyone is better off. How is this a bad idea again?
by akie 6y ago
Increase taxes on wealthy people and give it to poorer people so that almost everyone is better off. How is this a bad idea again?
- blueterminal 6y agoIt is a great idea but seemingly impossible to implement successfully. Has it ever been successful?
- adrianN 6y agoThere are various taxes that work that way. Depending on how high they are (and how high the taxes that work in the opposite way are) it works better or worse. The difference between rich and poor is not the same everywhere on the planet.
- _Understated_ 6y agoHow do you define "wealthy"?
- adrianN 6y agoPeople who make more than the median.
- AdrianB1 6y agoThen rape the women and molest the children in the process, then kill them all when you're done; it is as moral as your proposal, just finishing the sentence. "How is this a bad idea again", you say?
- dang 6y agoWould you please stop posting ideological flamebait to HN? We've asked you before, and you've done it twice in the last 24 hours. Not cool. The GP comment wasn't great either but this was much worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- AdrianB1 6y agoSorry, it is not by intention, probably cultural difference interpreting the same words in different ways. What is the second comment that looks out of line?
- dang 6y agoI forget which one I had in mind, but it was probably https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24259070 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24259070.
- drran 6y agoWhy not to increase taxes on poorer people and give it to wealthy people, so that almost everyone is better off? How this is a bad idea again?