We're already taxing the rich. "The top 1 percent paid a greater share of individual income taxes (37.3 percent) than the bottom 90 percent combined (30.5 percent)." The problem here isn't the rich not paying taxes, it's the government. -https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-data-2018-update …
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Even when there was 0% income tax, there were still other forms of taxes.
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Look, fundamentally, we can skip to the part where we disagree about what you are entitled to. It is not theft because you are not entitled to some portion of what you are claiming is your property.
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That thing when you don't realize that they used the term tariffs instead of taxes back then. Same thing, different word.
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And from my experience having had this discussion many many times, this disagreement is a lot like the anti/pro abortion positions vis a vis abortion being murder. In light of that, I apologize for my own inflammatory language towards
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They started collecting income tax as a result of the Great Depression. They instituted a lot of things designed to safe guard us a population from that sort of devastation happening again. That coupled with WW 2 and the new deal led to the largest middle class in history.
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Theft feels too extreme a word. As a society, we passed laws that allow for the collection of taxes. As a society we benefit from those taxes. (Roads, education, defense, police, etc..)
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The real question for me here: why the fuck do you *not* want the government to have a part of that money, so it can be used to benefit everyone?
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