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minus-squareHopFloplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 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-up1·6 months agoThe reason is that they simply avoid paying most of the taxes they should.
minus-squareHopFloplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 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-up1·6 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.
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.