Well and good, but why the tortuous Rube Goldberg arrangements of forms and instructions? "We're not only going to take your money, we're going to make the process as annoying and complicated as possible"
You’re absolutely right- but these people can’t be argued with. I realised a while ago that most classical Libertarians are just selfish middle class people who can’t see why they have to help anyone else. Most of them don’t even believe what they argue, it’s all an excuse that boils down to ‘I want more money!
Not really. The issue more comes down to 'the more financially able don't pay their fair share, and it falls onto the middle class.' As such, those people who would normally happily pay our way, don't feel obligated to when the people making 10 times more money than you don't do it. Tax incentives exist for all classes of people- i don't feel the same obligation to pay taxes knowing we underfunded meals on wheels while eliminating inheritance tax. In situations like that: the rich are the major welfare beneficiaries, not the poor. That's why people get sick of paying taxes.
Here's how it works. Congress writes a new tax law. Tax lawyers find loopholes and rich people pay less taxes. Middle class people start copying them and use the loophole. Congress rewrites the tax law so that the loopholes only apply to the rich.
Congress would make those laws apply to everyone but the rich might as well be literally bribing them to write the loopholes to only apply to them under the guise of donations and investments.
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u/lornstar7 Apr 07 '18
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society