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????? I was clear on the dependence - an ever increasing amount of the government's funding will come from these folks. You seem to believe that because they a
by DannyBee 2y ago
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I was clear on the dependence - an ever increasing amount of the government's funding will come from these folks. You seem to believe that because they are required to do so, it somehow does not create dependence, but that seems very strange.
For example:
Your parents were required to feed you as a child, or they would go to jail.
You were still dependent on them.
Dependence and penalties for non-compliance are totally orthogonal.
- triceratops 2y agoUnless children can send their parents to jail where you live (as opposed to the authorities doing it) that analogy just doesn't work. A more apt analogy would be children and household chores. In a functioning household with competent adults in charge, the parents aren't dependent on the children to do the chores. The parents can do them by themselves, or pay to have them done. They assign chores to children to instill in them a sense of duty and responsibility to the household (also to teach practical "adulting" skills, but that's beside the point). If the children shirk their chores, punishment is sure to follow. That's a long-winded way of saying that having rich people pay more tax doesn't give them any more influence on politics than they currently have. If anything it might leave them a bit less money to spend on lobbying.