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  • ^^More in total, yes, but less as a percentage - so you could actually even that up, make it equal, by raising tax for high earners.

    I've got a dog in this fight - I'm in the top ten% in terms of wages and I'd pay more, happily, if it was to benefit society.

  • I'd pay more, happily, if it was to benefit society.

    How much more? 5%? 10% You could donate 100% of your income right now -nothing is stopping you. I'm sure your local council will be happy to receive it.

    Tax over and above what's needed for basic necessities is theft.

  • Tax over and above what's needed for basic necessities is theft.

    yeah don't tread on you, 'ey, sport?

  • How much more? 5%? 10% You could donate 100% of your income right now -nothing is stopping you. I'm sure your local council will be happy to receive it.

    Tax over and above what's needed for basic necessities is theft.

    Any donation that I care to make will not, because it is a donation, change how the institutions of society function (unless I was galactically wealthy, which sadly I am not).

    These decisions need to be taken with a view of society as a whole - what the requirement is and what the available funds are, and what the implications of any such change would be (both positive and negative).

    That tax is theft is risible - literally a childs understanding of the world.

  • I would posit that tax is currently not covering basic necessities.

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