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This is a ridiculous comment. Governments should be entitled to a reward for schooling these people to wealth, for likely funding their growth (as people) and h

by unfunco 13y ago

This is a ridiculous comment. Governments should be entitled to a reward for schooling these people to wealth, for likely funding their growth (as people) and health, for protecting them from criminals, for collecting their trash, for cleaning the streets around their office, governments (despite many government workers) don't just sit around trying to extort businesses, they're trying to fund a happy future. I'm not saying I agree with the article in its' entirety, but there is a solid reasoning behind taxation.

bluedevil2k 13y ago
"Governments should be entitled to a reward" -> what??? They're entitled to a reward for a business becoming successful? You're mixing up corporate taxes and individual taxes. I find your comment somewhat ridiculous - "entitled to a reward for schooling these people to wealth, for likely funding their growth (as people) and health" - even if you believe that to be the case, which is debatable, they've already paid individual taxes their entire lives to receive those things - it's not like the government waived their taxes and took a stake in their company. If you've paid taxes your entire life for the services you've already received, why would the government be entitled to your business's taxes in the future if you've created a business outside their tax scope. Take Uber - they claim they aren't a taxi service, so the government is rewriting the laws to get make them a taxi company and get their money from Uber. I highly doubt the government is doing this to try fund a happy future.
xacaxulu 13y ago
I went to all private schools, my healthcare if provided by a private company and I work for a privately owned company. And none of the investors in my company are government entities. Also, the government hasn't been doing a good job protecting me from criminals, only imprisoning minorities with a dimebag on them or shooting the mentally ill. Trash pick up and road cleaning? Sure, I'll keep paying for that. But they are most definitely extorting businesses.

by unfunco 13y ago

bluedevil2k 13y ago

"Governments should be entitled to a reward" -> what??? They're entitled to a reward for a business becoming successful? You're mixing up corporate taxes and individual taxes. I find your comment somewhat ridiculous - "entitled to a reward for schooling these people to wealth, for likely funding their growth (as people) and health" - even if you believe that to be the case, which is debatable, they've already paid individual taxes their entire lives to receive those things - it's not like the government waived their taxes and took a stake in their company. If you've paid taxes your entire life for the services you've already received, why would the government be entitled to your business's taxes in the future if you've created a business outside their tax scope. Take Uber - they claim they aren't a taxi service, so the government is rewriting the laws to get make them a taxi company and get their money from Uber. I highly doubt the government is doing this to try fund a happy future.

xacaxulu 13y ago

I went to all private schools, my healthcare if provided by a private company and I work for a privately owned company. And none of the investors in my company are government entities. Also, the government hasn't been doing a good job protecting me from criminals, only imprisoning minorities with a dimebag on them or shooting the mentally ill. Trash pick up and road cleaning? Sure, I'll keep paying for that. But they are most definitely extorting businesses.