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The underlying counterargument is that tax dodging is a form of violence against the poor.
by iaHN 6y ago
The underlying counterargument is that tax dodging is a form of violence against the poor.
- cltby 6y agoRich guy: “Mind keeping your hands off my stuff?” Confiscationist: “he’s attacking me!”
- iaHN 6y agoThe underlying counterargument was that it was never completely "your stuff" to begin with.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 6y agoBackground reading: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery
- daenz 6y agoAnd we should leave the allocation of who is allowed to own how much stuff to who exactly? Politicians? Your average person on the street? Who are those economic geniuses who will distribute everything with objective correctness? That is the alternative that it sounds like you are promoting.
- damnyou 6y agoI share your concerns about centralized management, which is why the money should be redistributed in the form of a UBI to enable decentralized decision-making.
- sixstringtheory 6y agoThe decision about how much UBI is enough and from whom it is drawn and by how much is the critical part of the equation, and that is necessarily centralized.
- damnyou 6y agoIndeed, only the state can succeed at decentralization. That's why we need some amount of centralized, democratic decision-making as well. But redistributing wealth as UBI is a good way to redistribute power across society (an unalloyed good -- power should be broadly distributed) while avoiding most of the worst parts of central planning.