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When have increased taxes directly contributed to your take home pay?
by compiler-devel 2y ago
When have increased taxes directly contributed to your take home pay?
- IAmGraydon 2y agoIt doesn’t. They’re just expressing their jealousy in a thinly veiled and highly embarrassing way.
- laidoffamazon 2y agoIt’s not very thinly veiled
- compiler-devel 2y agoIt truly is embarrassing. Imagine seeing something and thinking, "how can I get the government to forcefully take some of that for my benefit?"
- laidoffamazon 2y agoIt’s not for my benefit, I just want to see Stanford grads get punished. I could get more punitive but I keep that for yelling at strangers in person.
- alchemist1e9 2y agoAbsolutely embarrassing and a real life demonstration of a famous quote: “I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.”
- stemlord 2y agoTo be fair OP's website explains that most of the money isn't earned income. I'm happy for them though
- compiler-devel 2y agoWhat do you mean by “isn’t earned income” ?
- alchemist1e9 2y agoThe anti-capitalists have this crazy idea that investment income isn’t “earned” in the same way that labor income is. Of course that’s absurdly anti-capitalist and completely ignores the point of capitalism and the function of risk taking incentivized by potential rewards. Failing to make a coherent argument against active investment income, for instance entrepreneurs, they will then revert to criticism of passive investors and their eventual complaint will come to arguing S&P index investors should be taxed on “unrealized” gains. Remember it’s all illogical nonsense motivated by Envy which they masquerade as Empathy.
- simonhorlick 2y agoIt's motivated by the ideology of wanting a meritocracy - the idea that if you work hard you can reap rewards. Having some people in society that can sit at home and watch the S&P increase while some have to work 50-hour weeks to make ends meet is seen as problematic.
- alchemist1e9 2y ago> the ideology of wanting a meritocracy - the idea that if you work hard you can reap rewards. and of those hard earned rewards investing them and then sitting at home and watching the S&P increase you mean? oh wait that’s problematic … let’s take those rewards away for “fairness” .. opps no incentives no meritocracy no prosperity
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- lostlogin 2y agoHow would that even be possible? Presumably some people get a top up if they are on a tiny wage, but ‘direct contribution to take home pay’ really isn’t the point of tax. It also sounds a fairly inefficient use of money. Have I missed something in this conversation?
- compiler-devel 2y agoYes you have missed something but don’t worry about it.
- wiredfool 2y agoWhen health insurance is 10x cheaper because of it.