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Tax code artificially makes for "terrible geographic selections". You aren't very far from "Well of course you got raped, look at what you're wearing" logic.
by woodman 12y ago
Tax code artificially makes for "terrible geographic selections". You aren't very far from "Well of course you got raped, look at what you're wearing" logic.
- toomuchtodo 12y agoNo, its not tax code. Its expensive to drag food to the middle of nowhere. Its expensive to drag fuel to the middle of nowhere. Both have externalities that aren't paid for. It is not anyone's right to have everyone pay for their choice to live far from infrastructure that already has a sunk cost.
- woodman 12y agocbd1984 specifically mentions tax, so yeah - it is tax code. In absence of tax the cost would naturally be higher, and that is the price you pay for living in a remote location - but that is a real economic cost of moving the resources. Tax is completely artificial and if the stated goal is a progressive structure, than this is an obvious case of stated goals not matching reality.
- dalore 12y agoOk so I go and choose the most distant area, so now everyone is expected to pay to ship goods to me?
- woodman 12y agoHow could you possibly arrive at that conclusion?