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aussir
6y ago
If you raise the price of cigarettes through taxes, less people buy cigs. Same for gambling, driving, flying, etc. If you raise the price of labor through minimum wage, you fix poverty. Opposed to literally everything else plus evidence.
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aussir
6y ago
The issue with such taxes is that they treat stuff like liquid assests which are subject to rapid change, like stocks, as the same as physical cash. It also brings along the idea that the goverment taxes you when you: make the money, use th
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aussir
6y ago
I fail to see how this is a conflict of interest by just helping others. Maybe if it was a widnows or linux pc? Even then it's still stupid.