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Originally Posted by HockeyIlliterate
I think that I understand your comments, but in regard to the quoted portion, if you truly believe that the "will of the majority should guide the society," then I suppose, at least in the U.S., slavery (or at least segregation) would still likely be allowed, women might just now be getting the right to vote, and homosexual marriage would still likely be illegal.
Which is why I think that, in regard to some matters, the "will of the majority" is not how things should be decided. And tax policy is probably one of those matters.
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Well, firstly I'm not sure I agree that those things would have happened slower. In a case of things like slavery, it's not an accident that the people fighting for slavery were also the ones who stood to gain huge profits from it.
Either way, I see your point, in regards to something like tax policy, again you have to assume that the people drawing up the laws and influencing them are not the ones that stand to gain from skewing them disproportionately to their own liking. IMO this is just straight up not the case. The enormously wealthy have a much greater ability to influence the taxation policy (and any policy really) of a nation, and it's not an accident that it's currently built to benefit them the most.