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Until you clarify how an inheritance isn't income, all my points still stand. If you're not part of the taxes are theft crowd, then you're just a hypocrite.
Awe Eddie, ....see the first problem you have is with your accepted premise. I reject the income tax premise. What makes an income tax legitimate? I am against all income taxes because they are Marxist , redistribution schemes. Income by labor should not be taxed. Capital is just old labor, and should not be taxed. Economic rent is entirely a result of the government and I, just like Adam Smith ,Ricardo, JS Mill and a while host of other people , believe it is the most legitimate source of revenue along other fees associated with the benefits of government service.
Again I asked a simple question, which no one in this forum seems equipped to answer. Who should pay for my ice cream cone, your grandma, you , the postman, a random person, or me?
So go ahead and convince me why an income tax is just, and why poor people five thousand miles away do not have a right to your stuff , and see if you can do it without being a hypocrite.
Thus i fundamentally believe that those that receive a good or service should pay,...with perhaps a special outlay for charity, but that is not a tax question.
Someone who inherits money is not inheriting "the countries wealth". That money is not collectively owned. It's owned by the giver... a single person. And it's private property, not public property.
Progressives want to take ownership of everything while simultaneously arguing the nobody else really actually owns anything.
Yeah, that wasn't what I said, but in the simple minded "taxes are theft and progressives want to take my trailer" mindset, it all turns to that.
The country has advanced infrastructure, a well function judiciary and government. These things allow the wealthy to maintain their wealth and expand on it, and therefore their tax money should fund it more proportional to their wealth.
..yet somehow angry white working class guys feel some sort of fraternity with the 1%, spouting rhetoric about poor people stealing their money via the government and other nonsense. Congratulations Rush, you've turned the white working man into your fool.
Yeah, that wasn't what I said, but in the simple minded "taxes are theft and progressives want to take my trailer" mindset, it all turns to that.
The country has advanced infrastructure, a well function judiciary and government. These things allow the wealthy to maintain their wealth and expand on it, and therefore their tax money should fund it more proportional to their wealth.
Now we are getting somewhere. Very well done, dman. Though I would ask why not just tax that directly instead of taxing a surgeon's salary ?
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..yet somehow angry white working class guys feel some sort of fraternity with the 1%, spouting rhetoric about poor people stealing their money via the government and other nonsense. Congratulations Rush, you've turned the white working man into your fool.
Mostly because they just don't have a clue other than paying crappy taxes.
Now back to your point: Why is this house worth so little and does it have anything to do with what the owner did?
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