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Those local merchants pay the taxes that fund your streets, your schools, your hospitals, and all the other things you take for granted every day.
by 9dev 1y ago
Those local merchants pay the taxes that fund your streets, your schools, your hospitals, and all the other things you take for granted every day.
- hnbad 1y agoThe local merchants' profit pays for that. That profit comes from sales. For local merchants this likely means sales to customers like "you". So it's your money paying for those things via local merchants. If your concern is foreign merchants not paying into the local tax system, it sounds like you're advocating for tariffs (i.e. taxes on imports).
- 9dev 1y agoIt’s not like you don’t get anything in return from the merchants. Yes, you are part of the local economy. I’m not going to argue with you whether the capitalist society works, because it does, and has improved life to extreme measures. This entire system doesn’t work if money flows to half a globe away. It’s not just about taxes alone, but the whole infrastructure of local corporations manufacturing and selling goods while creating employment and contributing to the local society. Tariffs alone don’t fix that, and neither do state-funded Chinese importers sweeping the markets.