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MSDOS KAPITAL
Jun 25, 2018





Dead Reckoning posted:

E: It also still hasn't solved the normative problem of selling constituents on, "We need to take money out of your bank account, not to do anything useful with it, but to destroy it so that the economy doesn't overheat."
Well that's why you want to maximize the amount of money you can take out of the economy while minimizing the number of people you take it from and guess how you accomplish that.

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MSDOS KAPITAL
Jun 25, 2018





Also the rich already complain about their money being taken to educate kids and save the planet, and the political response has been to take less of their money at the expense of not educating kids and ruining the planet. So on an empirical basis the argument falls flat.

Frankly I don't think "we're taking their money because they have too loving much of it" is all that bad a take. I'm convinced. It's shorter and simpler and more to the point than having to justify whatever you're going to pay for with the taxes.

MSDOS KAPITAL
Jun 25, 2018





45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:

Money directly translates into political power
All the more reason to take it.

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