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This is really, really, really a problem. I know a lot of us make decent money and we write large "checks" to the government because we're in high tax brackets,
by apercu 5y ago
This is really, really, really a problem. I know a lot of us make decent money and we write large "checks" to the government because we're in high tax brackets, but seriously. The middle class has gotten smaller. If you live in a city a house costs a million dollars. Many people don't have adequate healthcare. Yet we are allowing the richest people in the world to have astronomical profits and pay no tax to help cover the costs of society, while we squeeze the "working rich" (high earners that don't get most of their income from dividends/capital gains) and working class .
Now, maybe if you are making 300+ you don't feel squeezed. But in all fairness, not that many people make $300k.
- gher-shyu3i 5y agoWhat do you recommend as a solution? Do you honestly think if MS and a few other companies paid more in tax things will magically get better? Do you trust the government to send that money properly? The problem runs much much deeper. This is only scratching the surface.
- apercu 5y agoI can't speak for places outside of the Americas because I've only travelled in the Americas for the last 10 years. But from Northern Quebec to Idaho to Florida to Nassau to Saskatoon bridges are cracking, rail is buckling, public transportation is lacking, etc. Health care wait times are bad or prices are ridiculous because of the false market we have created. So do I think governments having more money NOT by squeezing me and all those I live near more is a good thing? Why yes, yes I do. The wealthiest being job creators is bullshit. It's always been bullshit. Microsoft is anti-consumer. Fuck them, let them pay taxes like the rest of us.
- gher-shyu3i 5y ago> So do I think governments having more money NOT by squeezing me and all those I live near more is a good thing? Why yes, yes I do. Unfortunately, those same governments don't see it as a mutually exclusive matter. They want to both tax you and everyone else. Not only that, they will end up wasting that money and nothing will get accomplished. You said it yourself, Canada has very bad wait times for healthcare. We need a fundamental solution.
- apercu 5y agoI have never experienced bad wait time in Canada. In rural areas this is more common. I emigrated FROM the use TO Canada for its healthcare. I also don't think that governments "waste" money. That is more right wing bullshit talking point propaganda. The rich ARE NOT job creators.
- mohanmcgeek 5y ago- a government borrows heavily and spends on useless things that won't generate future revenue (unlike roads, education which would) - government raises taxes because they can no longer borrow to spend on things - companies decide to keep their international profits in international accounts because that money to their country seems foolish at that point. - somehow that's affecting the "poor" people in the said very rich country?
- apercu 5y agoLibertarianism makes me smile.