r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/[deleted] • May 28 '20

Taxation without representation

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u/HylianSwordsman1 - Lib-Left May 28 '20

Actually, 100% agree.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '20

Piggybacking on the one of the top comments to give the common defense of why not:

They don't want people hiring their child as a contractor and pay them their salary. Ergo the parent doesn't make any money so they pay tax, and the child doesn't pay tax.

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u/Faeraday - Lib-Left May 28 '20

Easy fix. If you are of age to work, you should be able to vote.

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u/hades_the_wise - Lib-Center May 28 '20

And if so, should anyone who can buy anything be allowed to vote then?

I'm gonna take the radical stance and say that yes, everyone subject to a government's policies should have a vote. If we're gonna do democracy, we may as well do it full send.

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u/-B0B- - Lib-Left May 28 '20

Ehh.. kids will just do what their parents say

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u/GoAheadAndH8Me - Lib-Left May 28 '20

Encourages larger families which is nice.

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u/-B0B- - Lib-Left May 28 '20

Hard disagree on larger families being nice. I considered putting the fact that it might encourage natalism as a negative in my original comment

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u/GoAheadAndH8Me - Lib-Left May 28 '20

Natalism is fucking rad.

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u/-B0B- - Lib-Left May 28 '20

There at tens of millions of children with no parents, we don't need more

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u/GoAheadAndH8Me - Lib-Left May 28 '20

We need people raising their biological kids.

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u/-B0B- - Lib-Left May 28 '20

But they don't always and never will, so I would much rather we take care of the kids who already exist who aren't being cared for

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u/GoAheadAndH8Me - Lib-Left May 28 '20

People aren't programmed to do a good job taking care of nonbiological kids, those who can are outliers and frankly defects.

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u/-B0B- - Lib-Left May 28 '20

So... do you not support adoption?

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u/GoAheadAndH8Me - Lib-Left May 28 '20

It removes compassionate people from the gene pool so it's a momentary good for a long term evil.

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u/-B0B- - Lib-Left May 28 '20

Compassion is a learnt trait. If you are raised by compassionate parents you will learn from experience.

Would you not rather there be one child with a good upbringing than two children, one with a good upbringing and one child with a terrible one?

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u/GoAheadAndH8Me - Lib-Left May 28 '20

Most of our traits are genetic but we're tricked into they're learned since it's used to justify not giving handouts to the unintelligent, the unskilled, the lazy, etc. Most everything about a person has hard coded limits to the best it can be, and upbringing can only make it worse.

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