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> Is there a reason you can't continue to donate the same amount of money to your favored cause even if your taxes were raised? i can donate the same amount as

> Is there a reason you can't continue to donate the same amount of money to your favored cause even if your taxes were raised? i can donate the same amount as before if i decrease the rate at which i'm saving for a house. this tradeoff exists, will always exist, and is influenced by outside forces (taxes, inflation). that's the point. > Current inflation is mainly due to: [...] which is distinct from saying that state spending does not contribute to inflation. the rest of your points... i could respond but i don't see any path to resolving our disagreements. from my perspective you seem unwilling to admit an environment where distributing resources toward one purpose necessarily means redistributing them away from some other purpose, whereas i'm solidly convinced we don't live in the post-scarcity society. you suggest that individuals aren't to be trusted to distribute funds toward socially-good destinations (charity), yet i see a single individual bypassing the peoples' elected congressional representatives and doing just that. i expect you would dispute this characterization (as someone who shares a democracy with you, i would hope you dispute it), and that i would dispute your characterization of my views, and that we would get bogged down there just as we are here. i have no reason to doubt your intentions, but there seems to be a large gulf between us and i'm getting the feeling this medium is ill-suited to the task. but it's good for other things, so please enjoy this photo of a very special cat as my parting gift instead: https://uninsane.org/share/captain_the_cat_in_a_box.jpeg https://uninsane.org/share/captain_the_cat_in_a_box.jpeg

lapcat 4y ago
> i can donate the same amount as before if i decrease the rate at which i'm saving for a house. Of course. However, note that people with large student loan debts are also facing a tradeoff between paying for student loans and other things in life. In some cases, student loans can be like a mortgage. And many of the debtors are making less money than you (the current plan limits forgiveness to individuals making <$125K, and the claim is that ~90% of the beneficiaries make <$75K). The less money someone makes, the less able they are to successfully handle financial tradeoffs. > from my perspective you seem unwilling to admit an environment where distributing resources toward one purpose necessarily means redistributing them away from some other purpose This is not true. I've already suggested cutting spending on the military and police and raising taxes on the wealthy as two possibilities for redistributing funds.

lapcat 4y ago

> i can donate the same amount as before if i decrease the rate at which i'm saving for a house. Of course. However, note that people with large student loan debts are also facing a tradeoff between paying for student loans and other things in life. In some cases, student loans can be like a mortgage. And many of the debtors are making less money than you (the current plan limits forgiveness to individuals making <$125K, and the claim is that ~90% of the beneficiaries make <$75K). The less money someone makes, the less able they are to successfully handle financial tradeoffs. > from my perspective you seem unwilling to admit an environment where distributing resources toward one purpose necessarily means redistributing them away from some other purpose This is not true. I've already suggested cutting spending on the military and police and raising taxes on the wealthy as two possibilities for redistributing funds.