Also, please explain how the taxes help the ruling classes mostly- I'm not being facetious, I honestly am clueless about this sort of thing. What is the 'ruling class'?
1. Ruling class = (a) the people who control capital, (b) the political class that operates in their interests.
2. A large amount of taxes go to supporting your military which is used to secure the interests of the capitalists globally by ensuring the superexploitation of Third World labor and natural resources-- the military-industrial complex (military contractors, etc) also profits from this. Taxes also go to supporting laws (particularly those limiting strike activity) designed to protect the property interests of the wealthy. And a large portion of taxes goes to financing the police, unjust drug laws, prisons, and other forms of social control used sometimes legitimately but often to keep the lower classes in line.
In my experience I've found that people hate 'rich' people, those who earn over a certain amount.
The general population think the rich should be taxed more but I fail to see how this would help OR be fair.
Then they are right and you are wrong.
Over a certain income the tax is 50%! Large companies have to do all sorts to avoid these huge taxes.
Well I don't know how it works in your country, but in mine, large corporations have all kinds of tricks for avoiding taxes-- some of the largest manage to rake in billions in profits without paying hardly any taxes on their earnings. General Electric for example.
Can you imagine paying 50% tax?
No, but then again I don't earn a lot.
That's not fair. That means for every 1 hour you work you're working another hour for other people. This is unfair. I work my ass off to get what I have, as does my partner..
I don't know what your particular income situation is but your definition of "fair" seems subjective at best and arbitrary at worst.
Why should we be the villains cos we don't want to pay so much tax that we are effectively better off NOT working our asses off?
You certain you'd earn more on welfare than you do now?
As for large corporations, if they paid the tax they should they would lose half a mill for every mill they make, this isn't fair
Why isn't it fair? Please explain to me why I should feel sorry for a large corporation who's sole purpose is to create profit and will do absolutely anything to that end, including--
a) Paying their employees the bare minimum they can while working them as hard as possible to ensure "high productivity"
b) Frustrating the efforts of their employees to organize to demand better pay, benefits, working conditions and fair treatment, using everything from lies and intimidation to outright violence
c) Encouraging invasions, civil wars, government corruption, and coups in other countries to assure their interests and access to cheap natural resources and cheap labor is protected
d) Manipulating the political process in their own countries by pouring billions into political campaigns to ensure their cronies get elected
e) Routinely ignoring the health and safety of their employees in the interest of profit
f) Routinely polluting and poisoning entire communities
and is a sure fire way to halt progress!
The common refrain of the capitalist and free-marketeer. What progress are you talking about?
The government would probably get more money through taxes if it reduced the taxes of the rich instead of increasing them to make them look like they're on the side of the 'working class'-
See above.
this reduction should be accompanied by a zero loop hole policy. This way, even if the tax for the rich was 10% the rich would be OK with it and the government would get money. As it stands, the huge tax just means the rich/high earners have to loop hole to prevent paying the large amount of taxes.
Uh-huh, and why not have a zero loop-hole policy anyways?
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