Taxes are not a “scam” in as much as they serve the purposes I outlined above. However, knowing that it’s definitely not taxes funding things like healthcare or education, it’s good to examine all taxes with a critical lens:
Should we tax the poorest of workers at all? If one of the main goals of taxation is decreasing inequality, why do we charge income taxes at all to workers earning below the average for example? You could argue that we need to remove money from the economy for macroeconomic purposes such as inflation, but then let’s do it from the richest and not the poorest?
Fun fact: you can tell your libertarian friend that the DPRK (aka North Korea) abolished income taxes in 1974. If they hate taxes so much, they’re free to move there!
Taxes are not a “scam” in as much as they serve the purposes I outlined above. However, knowing that it’s definitely not taxes funding things like healthcare or education, it’s good to examine all taxes with a critical lens:
Should we tax the poorest of workers at all? If one of the main goals of taxation is decreasing inequality, why do we charge income taxes at all to workers earning below the average for example? You could argue that we need to remove money from the economy for macroeconomic purposes such as inflation, but then let’s do it from the richest and not the poorest?
Fun fact: you can tell your libertarian friend that the DPRK (aka North Korea) abolished income taxes in 1974. If they hate taxes so much, they’re free to move there!