everytime it exchanges hands its technically supposed to be taxed. Meaning if
>your boss gets a wage he gets taxed on >then he pays you money that gets taxed on >then you buy a chocolate bar with it, which gets VAT >then that business owner will have to pay business tax
and so on and so on and so forth. Your 20% tax isnt actually 20%. With how tax works its more like 80%
Yes, taxes gradually rise until a given area collapses into chaotic anarchy and total freedom. Then the process starts over again as stationary bandits re-establish themselves as government.
See, for example, ISIS.
Caleb Watson
the money you have has been taxed to death.
Jose Sullivan
any good historical references I can read about ?
Jayden Evans
i hate billionaires for spending more money on people the government should be in charge of everything ban people >lefties
Eli Martinez
Did you just start paying attention to the world today or some shit? Do you have any idea how absolutely fucking insane all of this shit currently is and will become?
Eli Torres
>In his final book, Power and Prosperity (2000), Olson distinguished between the economic effects of different types of government, in particular, tyranny, anarchy, and democracy. Olson argued that under anarchy, a "roving bandit" only has the incentive to steal and destroy, whilst a "stationary bandit"—a tyrant—has an incentive to encourage some degree of economic success as he expects to remain in power long enough to benefit from that success. A stationary bandit thereby begins to take on the governmental function of protecting citizens and their property against roving bandits. In the move from roving to stationary bandits, Olson sees the seeds of civilization, paving the way, eventually for democracy, which by giving power to those who align with the wishes of the population, improves incentives for good government.[5] Olson's work on the roving vs. stationary bandits is influential in analysis of the political and economic order structured in warlord states and societies.
taxation is the reason so many working people are poor
Ryder Edwards
I mean the injustice of it cannot be stressed enough. Laborers lose close to half their income after federal, state, sales tax and healthcare premiums. On top of that they have their bills and debt and maybe a mortgage if they’re lucky enough to own the place they live in (which they pay huge property taxes on, too). These are people who perform backbreaking labor every day, making society function, and society repays them by draining all of their money through obligatory costs that do not benefit them in any tangible way. I don’t understand why this horrible injustice is not the fixation of tax reform. Instead the focus is kept entirely on the billionaire bogeyman while the random worker on the street just keeps bleeding out financially from the enormous tax burden he already carries and which leftists just want to make even more onerous