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Originally Posted by Sliver
I can guarantee that's not the case. I'll be the first one to hang my middle finger out the window at you if you're driving 1km/h below the speed limit and I am the guy who whistles at dogs in people's cars when stopped at a red light to try to get the dog to freak out. Still an ####### over here.
We have been conditioned to think like capitalists, but you look at countries with more of a socialist bent with better social safety nets (Nordic countries?) and it seems higher taxes can equate to better lives for more people when the tax revenue is invested back into elevating/protecting people. Surely that line of thinking is shared by many of us and I sure hope more than 0.01% of us.
Like, at what point does a guy have enough? I feel guilty about owning a business sometimes. I'll talk to other business owners or wealthy people and they're always bitching about taxes and the new generation being lazy and on and on. Then I'm like, you have three houses, vacation in Hawaii annually, drive the best cars, do the coolest stuff and you're whining about your $20/hour employees not doing enough for you? Like, WTF. How does a guy think like that?
What we need here is more socialism. Higher tax rates at the high levels. I hate watching the spread between the haves and the have-nots widen. And I look at my kids and the leg up they'll have (paid-for university, down payments on houses, no debt) and it just seem so unbe-fataing-lievably unfair to their peers.
I actively vote against my own self interests in favour of parties who will do more for the greater good. You cut corporate taxes for a guy like me and I don't even fataing notice. Why give me that? Take it from me (I won't notice) and give it to 10 people for whom it will put literal food on their table or pay for their kids' dental work.
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Honestly, good on you man. That is pretty altruistic and commendable.
I think that most humans to varying degrees feel like you, but will immediately recoil to me-first attitude when they see the ultra wealthy not paying their share.
They then vote for individual self-interests and the cycle continues. Kinda like prisoner's dilemma on a grand scale.