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> Third, the point of taxes is not to change people’s income to better match the magnitude of their contribution to society. The point of taxes is to provide a
by iso1210 5y ago
> Third, the point of taxes is not to change people’s income to better match the magnitude of their contribution to society.
The point of taxes is to provide a society where the guillotine doesn't come out. When it does it won't be the Musks and Bezos' of the world that the masses stop at.
- inglor_cz 5y agoThis is a popular idea, but guillotine-heavy revolutions were pretty rare in the Western world, and modern revolutions in general, successful or not, were often a consequence of a lost war, not of usual misery in peace. Losing a war is dangerous for survival of any regime. Peasants' revolts are another story, but too far back in history to be an useful analogy for today. They were also beaten to bloody pulp most of the time.