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"It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expence, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that pro

• pooriaazimi 15y ago
  As a not rich beleiver in socialism, I completely agree. But, are you sure governments really exploit the taxes for the good of people? Who is to say not paying taxes and creating jobs instead is not better than paying taxes to a government that's going to spend trillions on missiles and bombs?
  • lukifer 15y ago
    I completely agree with you regarding our current tax-and-spend practices; but I think the flaw is not with taxation, but rather with corrupted democratic practices, both in the culture, and in the electoral-industrial complex. If government was truly an extension of public will, we would have mechanisms to pressure it to spend efficiently in ways that create infrastructure and jobs (operating system : software :: government : businesses). Now, there's a case to be made that such corruption is inevitable, that power will always overwhelm the public good, and that distributed self-governance simply can't work. I think that view is merely born out of cynicism and a feeling of powerlessness, and it betrays a lack of imagination. If the enlightenment revolutionaries had thought that way, we'd likely still have nobles and kings.