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Any other innovative ways to disproportionately tax the wage class?

• wat10000 2y ago
  Charging money for services is “innovative”? I know the hacker set likes to reinvent other industries and call it new, but this is rather extreme.
  • steele 2y ago
    Just say you're a landlord
    • wat10000 2y ago
      Give me free stuff. If you say no you’re a landlord.
      • steele 2y ago
        Free? Tax-dodging sovereign citizen panhandler too, I see.
• digdugdirk 2y ago
  Sure - create urban and suburban environments where a car is a necessity for daily function. Financing, insurance, maintenance, repairs, fuel... Cars aren't cheap. Reducing the overall space devoted to them and utilizing that space for useful purposes would be a net benefit. Providing public transport services with that increased revenue would leave the vast majority better off financially, not to mention the quality of life improvements.
  • steele 2y ago
    I don't disagree with the objective you describe, but I disagree with the Jonathan Swift-esque idea of abolishing free parking and increasing meters. That would increase the burden on the already-burdened and only nominally affect cost of convenience to the wealthy. I suppose everyone can tip their wait staff by letting them use their residential parking spot-- because without that pre-existing transportation infrastructure, employer provided transport/parking, affordable cost of living, and a living wage for all, I'm not sure how people are getting to work in dense urban areas. Although I love the idea of abandoned luxury vehicles lining the streets with boots on their wheels-- like a broken window theory for late stage capitalism.