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qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months agoThe substance of the argument is why do you think taxation is better than the system I proposed. I told you why I think taxation is bad and I told you why I think my system would be better.
Your response:
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I explained why very clearly- when applied fairly, it distributes money to places where it is most needed, whether people want to pay for those places to improve or not.
Your system would result in things like the small, very poor black neighborhood in a Southern town never getting any improvements because the white people with money are a bunch of racists. With taxes, they don’t have a choice. Good.
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
It’s like saying that a water powered car would be better than a gasoline car if only it was working.
The reality is that it doesn’t distribute money to the poor but to the politicians and corporations.
My system might not be perfect but at least it can’t be abused to the point that a tax system can and is a lot more efficient.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
As I said, your system allows racist majorities to deny poor minorities any improvements in their community.
Why are you okay with that?
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
This is the what if edge case we ware talking about before, it’s a worst case scenario based on the assumption that majority of people are racist and don’t want to help each other, and even though I don’t belive that is the case and my opinion is supported by the countless amount of charities and non profits, sure, potentially that is something that could happen. The reason why this is an acceptable risk is because the alternative is what we have today, corrupt, wasteful, broken system of extortion where poor stay poor and rich get richer and puting more money into it won’t fix it.