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How about thinking of the first order effects? Do you think taxes are fair as they are now? How is that working out for us?

• brigadier132 3y ago
  Tax revenues are so obscenely misallocated that I am not convinced that raising them further will fix anything. We spend more on education than any other country and have worse outcomes. If I had any reasonable confidence that if taxes went up every city will be made beautiful, the homeless would stop doing drugs and go live in government provided housing, and high speed rail would be built between all major metros I'd be first on board. As it stands, a third of my taxes would be used to pay off interest on debt and another third would be used to blow something up.
  • ehnto 3y ago
    It's unlikely the OP is referencing your tax income, but rather corporations and billionaires. I am certain spending could be better allocated, but should corporations and billionaires be getting a free ride when they are gaining so so much from society? What are the downsides to taxing them more?
    • brigadier132 3y ago
      They aren't getting a free ride and as a shareholder of many corporations while also not being a billionaire, by increasing taxes on corporations you are increasing taxes on me. Billionaires and corporations are a misdirection, the actual policy that they will push is to raise taxes on people making upper middle class salaries.