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qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months agoThe poor pay taxes too, in fact they pay the highest percentage of their income because they have to spend most of their income and can’t afford to invest or save. By removing the burden of taxes you give them additional funds that they could invest, save or spend on necessities and let charities, non profits, donations fund infrastructure. What’s more beneficial to a poor person, extra 2 meters of road in their neighborhood or doubling their paycheck?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The poor, at least in the U.S., are exempt from income tax.
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Sales tax, gas tax, utilities tax, property tax directly or included in rent, excise, all of the taxes imposed on businesses and their owners trickle down to the consumers because they have to increase the price of their products and services to cover what they pay in taxes. Every single tax is always pushed onto the last link in the chain - the consumer, and the poor have to spend the biggest part of their paycheck on consumption.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Once again, you are talking about it being unfairly applied. No one is arguing that an unfairly-applied tax system is a good idea.
qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
But the idea of a tax system is flawed to the point that it’s impossible to apply it fairly because the consumer is always the one paying, no matter what you change you can’t get away from it.