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In your ideal political climate, would you specifically, in your current financial situation, be paying more in taxes, less in taxes, or about the same?

More in taxes
54.9%
Less in taxes
13.9%
About the same
24.8%
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6.4%

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Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

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@hillelogram

As an Australian I voted 'more', on the condition that those in higher tax brackets pay a greater percentage of their income than me. And while we're at it, 'yes' to a proper UBI without the government persecuting the poor who are struggling to make ends meet.

12:08 AM · Feb 28, 2021Twitter Web App

(have-YER Candeira) for you for your cousin

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The problem is also what we mean by "taxes". Income taxes could use some adjusting, but we could ignore that and cover society's needs with wealth taxes, estate taxes and closure of tax loopholes for the super-rich.

Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

Feb 28, 2021

Yeah, absolutely agree with this too!

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In Australia higher income earners pay a higher percentage of their marginal rate as tax but it's not necessarily true and is mostly incorrect that they pay a higher percentage of their income as tax

Brendan Zabarauskas

@brendanzab

Feb 28, 2021

Yeah, see:

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(have-YER Candeira) for you for your cousin

@candeira

· Feb 28, 2021

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Also the discussion is about "paying more", but does that mean "raising the marginal tax rate"? Or does it mean "eliminating tax exemptions like Negative Gearing which lower the tax base while hiking real estate prices, making it more difficult to afford a place to live?