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qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Because you can always make up a theoretical “what if” edge case and the counter argument to it is a real world “this is happening right now” endemic.

I’d also appreciate if you’d post an answare to my entire argument instead of picking a single point and answering it with a question, otherwise this discussion won’t be very productive.

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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It is not happening right now because there is no country without taxation.

You are saying that you can’t counter a theoretical concept with another theoretical concept. Yes you can.

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- qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Read my previous comment especialy this part:
  
  What if the political class is corrupt and uses the tax money and their possition of power to fill up their own pockets, bailout banks and corporations owned by their billionaire friends and family members making them invulnerable to competition ensuring they’ll control the market, oppress the population to the point that it has no capacity to resist and even if it did it wouldn’t have the time nor strength to do so after working all day just to stay alive? What if the corporations collude with the politicians to introduce loop holes into tax law so that they don’t have to pay them and if they can’t do that they’ll just trickle-down the cost onto the workers and consumers by increasing prices or lowering wages?
  
  This is happening right now, to everyone, saying that something bad might theoretically happen to a small amount of people if the system changes does not justify sticking to a broken, fundamentally evil anti-human, extorcionistic system of finantial rape.
  
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  - FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Ah, I see, you’re arguing that badly-implemented taxation is an argument against all taxation. My mistake.
    
    I suppose leeches are an argument against medicine.
    
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    qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Im arguing that it’s counterproductive to try to extract good out of something fundamentally evil and prone to abuse no matter how good your intentions are and that it’s a good idea to replace it with something fundamentally good even if it’s not perfect.
    
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