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> At least this firmly puts to rest the myth that taxes are somehow proportional to the government services you use. No-one has ever seriously claimed that. It
by afavour 3y ago
> At least this firmly puts to rest the myth that taxes are somehow proportional to the government services you use.
No-one has ever seriously claimed that. It's self-evident that billionaires do not use a level of government service proportional to the amount of tax they pay, nor has that ever been expected or intended.
- alphanullmeric 3y agoThe vast majority of people that support such taxes will absolutely pretend like they’re some sort of service charge. Normally they just pull the “indirectly” card so that they don’t need to quantify anything. You can arbitrarily raise someone else’s tax burden by tacking on more and more things you can claim they indirectly use, while simultaneously arbitrarily lowering your own obligations by simply claiming you don’t benefit as much.
- afavour 3y ago> The vast majority of people that support such taxes will absolutely pretend like they’re some sort of service charge. [citation needed]
- alphanullmeric 3y agoMy source is the comments in this very thread.
- afavour 3y agoSurely a representative sample!
- unethical_ban 3y agoNot at all. It can be as simple as understanding that, at the point that a single person or small group amasses more than a certain amount of wealth, that as a matter of course they have exploited the system under which they operate, and that it is better for the common good that they be taxed at a higher rate. Or to quote a random Twit: "Once you reach a billion dollars, you get `I won Capitalism` trophy and your tax rate goes to 100%".