AntonToo
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- Jun 13, 2016
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antonoo, perhaps now you will understand this analogy I posted on the forum a long time ago to explain how tax expenditures are theft:
If a feudal lord had 20 serfs under him, and his annual expenditures came to $1000, he would have to tax each serf $50.
If he then took $200 of this money and returned it to 5 of his favorite serfs, he would have $800 left. Not enough to cover his $1000 in expenses. And so he needs to tax everyone an additional $10 to balance his books. In short, he would have to raise the tax rates by 20 percent on everyone to come out even and to give the $200 gift to his five favorites.
This is the system we have today.
Those 5 inner circle serfs tell themselves, "Woo hoo! I get to keep more of my money! Yay!", completely oblivious to the fact everyone is paying higher tax rates because of them, including themselves.
Instead of paying $50 in taxes, everyone is paying $60 in taxes.
Bad for the economy. And wealth begins to concentrate up to the favored five.
I dont think serfs would necessarily have a problem with that if those 200 dollars went to help serfs with children to feed.
Your story insinuates some sort of injustice based on personal favors, but that not how taxation works - it's not personal, it's based on what we as a society value. We want to reduce the burdens of having children and owning your own home and we do that by lowering the taxes on such households and yes increasing tax rate on everyone.
That isn't theft.
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