‘Is money a birthright now?’
If it’s not, then logically a 100% inheritance tax must be imposed. After all, nobody is entitled to money just for being born, right?
In that case, I would burn all my money rather than pay it in taxes before I died. Just put every single penny you have into Bitcoin or something and then purposely delete the private keys.
Why not donate everything to charities you support instead?
Because I don’t really know of any charities that I would support, but I could support some sort of open source software, I guess, like donate everything to fdroid, or something.
FOSS related: The Free Software Foundation, The Software Freedom Conservency, The Software Freedom Law Center, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (aka the EFF), Debian, the Mozilla Foundation, the Document Foundation (aka Libreoffice)…
In the long run, nearly the same effect as 100% inheritance tax anyways.
The government won’t know the cash has been removed from the economy, but it’ll have been removed all the same.
Not really because I sure as hell wouldn’t be paying it to the government.
Pretty spiteful of you
Not to mention anti-social.
By not paying it to the government, I am not personally supporting killing people across the world. So it seems like the moral thing to do.
They’ll just print it regardless.
Children like you are exactly why we should do this.
I don’t care what the science says! I don’t care about the suffering of others! This offends my capitalist sensibilities that I have never questioned and I’m not about to start thinking too hard about it now just because some hippy libs want to sneak communism in the back door!
I have zero respect for this world view and hope we are able to simply bulldoze it with unstoppable momentum.
Nicely put. I just cannot tell if that is how you feel or your just channeling.
For me, I am divided. On one hand people do nothing unless motivated and needing basic necessities is a powerful motivator. On the other, I am curious as to the most cost effective approach. Plus I would much rather spend money on people getting along then police and armies.
Edit: Just thinking, maybe call me a libertarian socialist. Maybe that is why I am always confused.
people do nothing unless motivated
this is an assumption worth challenging. the evidence suggests, in fact, that people are almost always doing things!
It is an interesting question. That is, the question if what motivates people to be productive. I think it varies widely.
I’m making fun of it. I am also a libertarian socialist or something.
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I’m expecting Republicans to propose opening debtors prisons where you have to work for free to pay off debts.
Good thing none of them read history.
I mean, there’s one case of this in the US already - child support. It’s the only debt you can be jailed for failing to pay.
This is why I’m so disgusted every time someone says “republicans and democrats are basically the same”, which I most often hear from Europeans.
I guess only in the sense that both parties are right wing? One is just extreme in that direction?
Can’t have people given an option to not take exploitive jobs just to eat
It is in the age of AI and Automation.
Social darwinism and galtonism.
Because that is what they paid to do?
I suggest you go to your local library and check out, or request via inter library loan - William Connolly - Capitalism and Christianity American Style. It builds on Max Webers work on the early Puritan influence into economics (The Protestant Work Ethic). Connolly incorporates much of his contemporary philosophy to try and explain the bootstrap mentality, cruelty politics, and the modern religious nationalist movement. Plus the book cover is metal.
I mean, they seem to be against anything that would affect American citizens positively.
Are republicans stupid or disingenuous? It’s so hard to tell sometimes; it certainly seems like the ones peddling the lies have themselves been sucked into believing them.
