Funny, but taxes ARE cool. Anyone who disagrees is welcome to do the research by living in any number of failed states.
Don’t be that guy that goes to dinner with a large group of friends then skips out on the bill.
Taxes are cool
Submitted 13 hours ago by Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
tmyakal@infosec.pub 12 hours ago
Nothing inherently wrong with taxation. The problems are how taxes are determined, how they’re collected, and how that money is distributed.
Banana@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Exactly. Conceptually, taxation isn’t left, but the way some government use those funds absolutely is theft.
Not to mention how angry people are about taxation, but are also completely unaware that conceptually, profit is actually left of your surplus value.
Steve@communick.news 11 hours ago
Modern governments with their own Fiat currencies don’t use taxes to pay for anything. Taxes money doesn’t get distributed, it gets destroyed to control inflation.
TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
I’d rather live in a world without government or currency. Taxes suck, but only insofar as it legitimizes and enables the monopoly of violence
snooggums@piefed.world 11 hours ago
Have fun in Mad Max might makes right land.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Anyone who disagrees is welcome to do the research by living in any number of failed states.
Currency is a tool of authoritarian governments to extract labor via the threat of poverty and state sanctioned violence.
Taxes are a means of legitimizing that violence by recharacterizing an extortionary rent as interpersonal debts, and the violence of collections as just compensation
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Taxes are not theft. They are contributing to the group that shares resources like water and services like roads. These are not naturally forming, they are planned and maintained by people doing a job who need to be compensated.
The problem with taxes is who is taxed. If only a few hundred families control a majority of the wealth, why are you paying taxes? They need to be taxed back down to the quality of life that we live.
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I’m pleased that you can conceptually see this “possibility”, for lack of a better word. It speaks of creativity and imagination.
That your conclusion seems locked-in on this possibility as the only solution, is needlessly below your abilities and shows mental rigidity or tunnel vision.
Currency and Taxation CAN and HAVE been weaponized as you described, but so has a carrot. Just because a carrot CAN be used to stab through someone’s eye and pierce their brain, killing them, doesn’t mean that is what carrots are for, or how public policy should treat carrots.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 11 hours ago
I like it when daddy america dominates me by forcing me to pay taxes like the dirty little slut I am.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 11 hours ago
Capitalism is not cool, taxes are thus not cool.
Directly working to make your local community better is cool. Be the guy who comes over and helps you cook a meal with your other friends which you enjoy together.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
Socialism is just the highest tier plan on Taxes+
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Yeah, but can I be the guy who supplies industrial amounts of chlorine, alum, sodium hypochlorite, lime, ferric chloride, sodium hydroxide, activated carbon, polyphosphates, hydrogen peroxide, and ozone for disinfection for my local water treatment plant? Can you spare the steel and engineering brother? I’m so thirsty.
I also have to take a dump. Can I give it to you?
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Shut up nerd
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Erm, pretty sure thats ai
GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
It’s shit posting not slop posting. Fuck AI slop, how difficult is to slap some text on a picture?
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Tax evasion is no grey area!
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Fantastic
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
TVTA
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
No
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Five Guys plus One
CluckN@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Is this AI upscaled?
Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I hope so
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 7 hours ago
It would explain why it looks like crap
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Taxes are fine so long as they are fair and apply to everyone.
snooggums@piefed.world 11 hours ago
Including all businesses, which disproportionately benefit from publicly funded infrastructure.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
I was thinking religious organizations and the ultra wealthy, but you’re right as businesses would cover those.
daggermoon@piefed.world 7 hours ago
Mommy Sasha
TommySoda@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Taxes are cool when they work properly. The problem with taxes right now is that we’re not really getting much benefit for what we pay and those that have the most are not paying their fair share. Not only that, a large portion of our tax money is going directly to those companies that refuse to pay taxes.
WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 8 hours ago
In the U.K. we have this really cool thing known as “in work benefits” where the government tops up your income cause companies pay such shit wages.
Reform, one of the popular right wing parties wants to cut the benefits bill, which will include this and pensions. It’s exciting to find out how much damage that will cause, if they get in.
altphoto@lemmy.today 59 minutes ago
Sex work is still work. They deserve dignity and recognition for what they do for the rest of us. In my moments of solitude only Lulu brings warmth to my life. She’s awesome. I hope things go well to all you guys who do porn for us ugly people.