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We all pay taxes and benefit from "society". There's nothing special about it, and you too have the freedom to start your own company.


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This presumes that societies are run and tax so as to provide equal benefits to all. This is disproven by, I dunno, the history of every society.

Taxes are not equally paid either. I'm not sure what your point is. Do you want to limit wealth? Do you want to ban entrepreneurship? Do you want communism?

You’re right. Workers now pay a higher tax rate than Capital owners:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/16/us-now-ta...

What I want is for the value workers create to be returned to them, not hoovered up by the wealthy in some distortive, unjustifiable scheme that prizes Capital ownership over everything else, including the lives and well-being of the majority of citizens.


Sure, I agree with removing capital gains taxes. Remove corporate income tax too. That would eliminate a lot of the discrepancy and tax loopholes.

But tax rates are meaningless otherwise. The top 1% pay as much as the bottom 90% combined, and the bottom 40% pay nothing at all.


>Do you want communism?

Yes

>Do you want to limit wealth?

Absolutely


No thanks. No need for an ideology that has killed hundreds of millions while keeping the ones the survived in poverty.

Any wealth inequality that exists in capitalism is only magnified in communism where an even smaller group of people have both political and monetary power.


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