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Or they could pay taxes like everyone else and let the elected governments tackle those issues.
by elzbardico 3y ago
Or they could pay taxes like everyone else and let the elected governments tackle those issues.
- superduty 3y agoLogical fallacies are your superpower. Bravo.
- renegade-otter 3y agoBecause that's what governments are for. A lot of these pet causes of the ultra rich is just reputation laundering. Maybe start with making sure your platform does not spread anti-vaccine, anti-science misinformation? That would require taking an ad impressions hit and a monetary loss, a sacrifice too steep to make for the public good.
- bigyikes 3y agoMany would disagree with your premise. Governments are not for curing all diseases. Governments are for protecting my rights, enforcing the law, and providing basic services and a safety net.
- gretch 3y agoIf we’re talking about the US (reasonable because that’s where Zuck is) the role of the govt is defined in the constitution. If you search for “disease” or “curing disease” you get 0 hits. Meanwhile the thing they advocate for is protected as the 1st amendment. > Maybe start with making sure your platform does not spread anti-vaccine, anti-science misinformation? So they have it almost as close to backwards as you can get it.
- slater 3y agoAnd tax dodges.
- nradov 3y agoIt is not appropriate for social networks to censor legal speech, even if we consider it misinformation.
- renegade-otter 3y agoThere is absolutely no rule or law like that. This is completely made up. Elon Musk censors people on Xitter all the time. (Pretty sure you are a fan of his)
- bigyikes 3y agoZuckerberg has undoubtedly paid billions in taxes, far more than practically any of us ever will. If everyone else paid taxes like Zuckerberg, we’d have a lot less money in our pockets. Moreover, the US government collects more than a trillion in taxes each year — is a few additional billion in tax revenue really what’s stopping the feds from tackling those issues?
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- 7thaccount 3y agoI doubt it. They lobby (i.e. bribe) to have the tax code shaped to where they have a access to a bazillion loop holes. Between holding money in a tax haven to holding large amounts in company stock or whatever...there are lots of tricks. Sure he may pay more absolute dollars, but percent wise it's surely far less than those of us paying 40%. They then form their own charities to control exactly where their money goes instead of it going to taxes like all of us.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> If everyone else paid taxes like Zuckerberg, we’d have a lot less money in our pockets. People whose income comes mainly in the form of capital gains pay much lower taxes on income than everyone else.
- nradov 3y agoReally? Long-term capital gains tax rate at upper income levels is 20%. Most households have a lower effective income tax rate than that after accounting for all deductions.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoSure, but the total is still enormous.
- paulddraper 3y agoWTF Zuckerberg famously paid a fortune in taxes because he didn't do an 83b election.
- melling 3y agoYou’d have to be a bit naive to think we’re going to allocate more funds to medical research because we took in more taxes. The government is run like a Ponzi scheme. We’re $33 trillion in debt paying a trillion in interest this year. Of course the entitlements time bomb is an even bigger problem: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucemccain/2016/10/14/the-entitlement-time-bomb-politicians-refuse-to-discuss/amp/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucemccain/2016/10/14/the-enti...
- forward1 3y agoCan you name some issues governments have solved with taxpayer funds?
- paulryanrogers 3y agoNeed for defense, education, water, fire fighting/regulations, sewer, trash/recycling pickup, and once in a while workers rights and anti-trust. (Depending on ones definition of 'solved'.)
- vivekd 3y agoYes thank goodness those monopolies are gone and our cities are all clean and safe from fires and our sewage and road infrastructure is in top condition
- paulryanrogers 3y agoI'd agree those needs haven't been solved permanently. Hence the need for vigilance and a strong government that's controlled by the people, not the rich or high born.
- vivekd 3y agoThese discussions are exasperating for me because I always go where? Where in this world is this strong government that's controlled by the average joe and not by the rich or high born. It seems like some enlightenment era utopian fantasy that people haven't grown out of
- paulryanrogers 3y agoIt's an ideal to strive for. Rarely reached. Yet things get better the closer we are to it, and worse the farther away.
- forward1 3y agoAll of those sit on the shoulders of private business and enterprise. Government (and bureaucracy generally) only prevents them from efficiently executing on what the market demands of them.