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Imagine I take half of your income, and I tell you that it's supposed to go towards helping the poor. Instead, the poor become poorer, all city services get wor
by buzzert 3y ago
Imagine I take half of your income, and I tell you that it's supposed to go towards helping the poor. Instead, the poor become poorer, all city services get worse, and nobody really seems to be getting helped. You are then expected to take even more of your income AND now time as well trying to solve this issue for which there are hundreds (thousands?) of city/state employees who are supposed to be doing this as their full time job?
It makes perfect sense to me why they aren't doing anything. Maybe it would be better if we didn't collect taxes?
- hypeit 3y agoAgain, I have no idea why you're talking about taxes. Most wealthy people only pay capital gains tax which is hardly onerous. If you have billions of dollars and you have some sort of problem, it's absolutely within your means to do something about it (other than whine on twitter).
- buzzert 3y agoI'm talking about taxes because I don't think money is the problem. If money was the problem, we should be able to raise taxes to meet the needs of, say, the public school system. The problem is, the additional amount of taxes to be collected needs to be an absolute/agreed upon value, not just "more".