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Wow so that must mean when the government really needs people to fight in a war they tax the working class really heavily, to encourage them to quit their jobs
by tangjurine 4y ago
Wow so that must mean when the government really needs people to fight in a war they tax the working class really heavily, to encourage them to quit their jobs and make marching off to death more attractive.
Instead of say, implementing a draft?
- neilwilson 4y ago"Instead of say, implementing a draft?" That's taxing. They are no longer available for the private sector to hire are they. As I said tax isn't about raising money. It's about releasing resources. As you've cleverly discovered, there is more than one way to do that - given government's monopoly on violence. Time, currency, land are all up for confiscation when you control the big stick. Of course there's what to do with the hoard of cash the private sector isn't spending on hiring people, but perhaps you can read "How to pay for the War" and discover the mechanisms for dealing with that.