You often hear people alluding to a CEO's salary relative to that of their employees in particular. According to an image I'd seen making the rounds, the CEO of Chase bank-reprehensibly-makes 31 million dollars a year, which (undisclosed by the image) is about 1/3rd of 1% of the combined low-end average of all employees (1 CEO making 31 million dollars divided by 256,105 employees = $120 each stolen from each employee)
The combined federal and local government on the other hand take between 20% and 30% of each of these employee's incomes, taxes the company these employees work for 8% of whatever these employees' incomes are (payroll taxes), taxes a percentage of the goods this company produces or services this company renders, taxes a percentage of the goods or services this company purchases from other companies and so on.
t's obvious that government takes much more from each individual employee by a spectacular margin but one could argue that the government provides important services that a business couldn't or wouldn't, however, is not the reverse also true? Businesses provide services and products a government can't or won't.
tl;dr:
ITT let's talk about how your extremely high tax rate has benefited you directly and how, if there were any justice in this world, you would be taxed much more than you are now. Feel free to muse about how if someone making more than you was taxed more your "society" could afford "x", just make sure you don't provide any specific numbers in case they don't work out as well as you'd think they would.
Let's also talk about what you'd do if your income was close to 30% higher than it is now were income taxes hypothetically abolished. Would you save it? Spend it? Donate to charity?
They are both theft. The only thing that isn't theft is subsistence farming, since the soil doesn't have rights so you can take things from it if you want
Kayden Roberts
Profit is exploitation not theft.
Carter Long
Options
Liam Sanders
>Profit is exploitation Is it? if a game has a mechanic and you use it does that mean you are exploiting?
Jonathan Rogers
Profit is greed and greed is the root of all evil. Defining it as theft is too narrow a definition. Ideally, taxation is an incentive to keep citizens involved in the administration of the government providing the structures and guidelines for the society which one might reside. This applies to monarchies as well as democracies and dictatorships, except that the ideologies of the people proliferate societies in radically different ways. But yes, essentially, profit is bad and taxation is noble, in principal.
>Even if you don't accept that as valid, the future inhabitants of that soil have rights. Only because you're stupid enough to perceive time in a linear fashion doesn't mean you're entitled to rob the future inhabitants of their prosperity. Does this mean owning land is gonna be banned like slavery was?? Fuck, this is going to affect my investment strategy
Brody Price
Obtaining profit does not require coercion, obtaining taxes does. /thread >Profit is greed No profit is the additional wealth created by voluntary exchange. Earning a profit to sustain yourself is the least-evil way of living. The only alternative is brigandry.
