Dude, this post cracks me up. Here's what I can't figure out:
- Are you really that naïve?
- Are you just trolling?
- Did you know patriots.win is (--->) that way?
Benefit of the doubt that this post is in earnest, the community for a question like that is TDW, not GA- but I'll bite anyway.
It doesn't matter what rate the taxes are set at, millionaires and billionaires don't pay it. Only us W-2 and 1099 slaves pay those. Why? Billionaires hide all their money through 501c non-profits and S-corporations, among other instrumentations. They have the ability to "pay" themselves $1 per year while maintaining access to millions or billions stashed in corporate accounts taxed under completely different laws- so who would give a crap whether the gov takes 10 cents or 90 cents of that dollar.
VAT's a shitty proposal as well- it's nothing but a national sales tax when you get down to it. The government takes the same cut off the top when someone buys a loaf of bread- whether that's a struggling single mom or a billionaire. When the gov needs more money and they crank the VAT rate, it hurts the poor and working class disproportionately. The rich will always find a way to circumvent the VAT, just like they do in Europe now. (A friend owns an EX/IM company and declares the value of an imported car as $100 rather than $100,000 before the buyer takes delivery, for instance).
There will always be opportunties to skim under commies. Every new 503(c) represents a money laundering opportunity. Would it surprise you to know that on average, the International Red Cross only sends 9 cents on every dollar donated to the affected people, and they're more transparent than most? The rest is "the cost of doing business".
Every corporation gets to take advantage of government loopholes and stimmies to avoid taxes- in ways a working person can't. When all else fails, moving money offshore or "investing" in another billionaire's tax-sheltered venture offers ways of retaining value and avoiding taxes while never raising an eyebrow by the IRS. Figure out why 1.9 Billion turns into $1400. Graft, skim and political payoffs.
And then when you think they can't get away with anything else, every time the government cones up with some hare-brained scheme to distribute wealth, it gets contracted out to companies who take their skim off the top, figure the cost of taxes into doing the thing they're supposed to do, and end up passing that cost back onto the individual taxpayer.
Liberals encourage this shitty behavior. Republicans tolerate it as long as they get some skim, too. Conservatives want to stop it and level the playing field. That's why corporations hate true conservatives- they benefit from the graft and bribery, they don't want a level playing field. The MBAs running them just want to maximize profit by any means necessary.
Anyone who thinks an economic policy can be built solely on taxing the rich is a fucking fool, period. The red pill is when people understand they're entitled to what they've worked for, and utopia is when the laws support that- rather than fucking over joe six pack on a daily basis because some lazy pos thinks they deserve more than their fair share.
Dude, this post cracks me up. Here's what I can't figure out:
- Are you really that naïve?
- Are you just trolling?
- Did you know patriots.win is (--->) that way?
Benefit of the doubt that this post is in earnest, the community for a question like that is TDW, not GA- but I'll bite anyway.
It doesn't matter what rate the taxes are set at, millionaires and billionaires don't pay it. Only us W-2 and 1099 slaves pay those. Why? Billionaires hide all their money through 501c non-profits and S-corporations, among other instrumentations. They have the ability to "pay" themselves $1 per year while maintaining access to millions or billions stashed in corporate accounts taxed under completely different laws- so who would give a crap whether the gov takes 10 cents or 90 cents of that dollar.
VAT's a shitty proposal as well- it's nothing but a national sales tax when you get down to it. The government takes the same cut off the top when someone buys a loaf of bread- whether that's a struggling single mom or a billionaire. When the gov needs more money and they crank the VAT rate, it hurts the poor and working class disproportionately. The rich will always find a way to circumvent the VAT, just like they do in Europe now. (A friend owns an EX/IM company and declares the value of an imported car as $100 rather than $100,000 before the buyer takes delivery, for instance).
There will always be opportunties to skim under commies. Every new 503(c) represents a money laundering opportunity. Would it surprise you to know that on average, the International Red Cross only sends 9 cents on every dollar donated to the affected people, and they're more transparent than most? The rest is "the cost of doing business".
Every corporation gets to take advantage of government loopholes and stimmies to avoid taxes- in ways a working person can't. When all else fails, moving money offshore or "investing" in another billionaire's tax-sheltered venture offers ways of retaining value and avoiding taxes while never raising an eyebrow by the IRS. Figure out why 1.9 Billion turns into $1400. Graft, skim and political payoffs.
And then when you think they can't get away with anything else, every time the government cones up with some hare-brained scheme to distribute wealth, it gets contracted out to companies who take their skim off the top, figure the cost of taxes into doing the thing they're supposed to do, and passing that cost back onto the individual taxpayer.
Liberals encourage this shitty behavior. Republicans tolerate it as long as they get some skim, too. Conservatives want to stop it and level the playing field. That's why corporations hate true conservatives- they benefit from the graft and bribery, they don't want a level playing field. The MBAs running them just want to maximize profit by any means necessary.
Anyone who thinks an economic policy can be built solely on taxing the rich is a fucking fool, period. The red pill is when people understand they're entitled to what they've worked for, and utopia is when the laws support that- rather than fucking over joe six pack on a daily basis because some lazy pos thinks they deserve more than their fair share.