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Regardless of how you feel about taxation, increasing taxes will not fix out of control spending.

• saubeidl 1y ago
  Regardless of how you feel about spending, decreasing spending will not fix out of control inequality.
  • richwater 1y ago
    There's nothing inherently wrong with inequality, unless you think everyone should have equal assets, enforced by violence (the government). The problem is the floor (cost of living, standard of living) is too low for too many people.
    • devoutsalsa 1y ago
      I like the concept of of everyone should have enough. I don't know if it's achievable, but I think it's a good goal to strive for.
    • danaris 1y ago
      > There's nothing inherently wrong with inequality If you're talking about a spherical economy in a vacuum, no, there isn't. When we actually turn our attention to the real world, we find that, in fact, there is. Because when the people at the top have sufficiently disproportionate power (and wealth is a kind of power), they use that power to increase the inequality by any means necessary. That includes, fairly prominently, redirecting resources that would otherwise have gone to ensuring the floor stays high to raising their own ceilings. So it's not a binary—either there is perfect equality or everything goes to shit—but the levels of inequality we have today are demonstrably bad for society.
    • saubeidl 1y ago
      It doesn't need to be perfectly equal. But to have some live in mansions while others sleep in cardboard boxes is immoral and unjustifiable.