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Would you support a change that required you to pay your taxes in labor instead? Assume this is integrated - your workplace, for some months out of the year, has you do the same job, but for the government instead of the company, and you do not get paid.

Yes, absolutely
6.2%
Yes, I think
18.9%
No, I think
26.5%
No, absolutely not
48.4%

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11:59 PM · Feb 15, 2020

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I want to change my vote to yes absolutely

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Isn't that basically what happens?

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NAN because, in theory, if my work is valuable enough for my company I might see improvement in my compensation. I can’t imagine that holding true through the new “tax season.” Also because I’m anti state, but were I not the previous reason still stands.

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Isn't this the same question you just asked just dressed up a little different.

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What about capital gains and dividend taxes?

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Too many jobs that are financially beneficial to private companies that don’t have much value to society generally and wouldn’t be useful in the public sector. E.g. government def. does not need as many marketing/advertising people as are currently employed by the private sector

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This is not a change

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In most senses this is equivalent to "would you support a change where pay+taxation are structured through a gap in effective pay rather than continually.

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Would be better off paying your taxes and using that time another way. advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/9/ea