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It's not about people being selfish, at all. It's about basic human behaviour. People don't like when something is taken from them, while they do not feel the s
by qalmakka 5y ago
It's not about people being selfish, at all. It's about basic human behaviour. People don't like when something is taken from them, while they do not feel the same amount of pain when they are forced give up on something they never had.
It's much more pleasant to learn you can save 20 Euros on your bills than finding 20 Euros on the ground, because we value losing what we already have more.
That's the reason why the idea of taxing wealth always stirs more chaos than taxing income. Income is money you didn't have before, while wealth is stuff you own already.
Giving up something you never had for "the greater good" is much easier than giving up privileges or wealth you already possess.
- noxer 5y agoTaxing wealth is "wrong" because you already paid taxes when you earned that wealth. So yes, you own it already and you already paid the taxes for it. + you would get "fined" for saving money if your wealth grows because you save. Obviously people dont want to pay more taxes because they spend less. But this all has absolutely nothing to do with the parent post. It was about short-term/long-term and the assumption that people wont vote for long-term "benefits" if it has short-term disadvantages.