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You can still collect taxes without taxing people who have already been taxed in the form of needing to exchange a large fraction of their life for the wage.
by IncreasePosts 3mo ago
You can still collect taxes without taxing people who have already been taxed in the form of needing to exchange a large fraction of their life for the wage.
- MagicMoonlight 3mo ago[dead]
- ceejayoz 3mo agoI'm entirely onboard with reducing tax on low/mid income folks currently "exchanging a large fraction of their life for the small wage" in favor of increased taxes on the billionaire class, yes.
- WalterBright 3mo agoWe already have the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).
- IncreasePosts 3mo agoThat covers maybe the bottom 30% of households, and realistically only if they have kids.
- ceejayoz 3mo agoWe already have all sorts of things that I like. We seem to be making most of the changes in favor of the already very well-off, instead of, say, expanding the EITC. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1960-_Tax_rates_of_richest_versus_low_income_people_-_US.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1960-_Tax_rates_of_r...