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minus-squareRikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·8 months agoQuite a bit. Those that vote against their own interests and don’t want the rich to be taxed, for example.
minus-squareParaponera_clavata@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoDo you personally know a lot of people like this? Like relatives?
minus-squareRikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoYeah, luckily I’m not in contact with those people that often anymore. These people are not in my social bubble, but I come from a poor family, so they were in my social bubble once upon a time.
minus-squareHopFlop@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoWhat reason is there to tax the rich more than we currently do? Why do they owe the government more money than they are currently being taxed for?
minus-squareRikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoThe reason is that they simply avoid paying most of the taxes they should.
minus-squareHopFlop@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoIm all for fixing that instead of just increasing the amount of taxes (which will then just hit the honest ones and not thr ones who are already evading taxes)
minus-squareRikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoIn an ideal world I agree with you. But we don’t live there. So we have to tax them more and then they’ll evade more, then we tax again and so on.
Quite a bit. Those that vote against their own interests and don’t want the rich to be taxed, for example.
Do you personally know a lot of people like this? Like relatives?
Yeah, luckily I’m not in contact with those people that often anymore.
These people are not in my social bubble, but I come from a poor family, so they were in my social bubble once upon a time.
What reason is there to tax the rich more than we currently do? Why do they owe the government more money than they are currently being taxed for?
The reason is that they simply avoid paying most of the taxes they should.
Im all for fixing that instead of just increasing the amount of taxes (which will then just hit the honest ones and not thr ones who are already evading taxes)
In an ideal world I agree with you. But we don’t live there. So we have to tax them more and then they’ll evade more, then we tax again and so on.