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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
But maybe you should pay more taxes?
Look around you, at all the #### going on that your taxes pay for. Just like businesses, they've also all had their costs go up, so the logic that taxes stay the same doesn't make too much sense especially given we have pretty clear signals that our health care can't handle any stress on the system or we have to shut down society. Take a look at our education levels, have you talked to a young person lately? They're idiots.
Like, maybe you should pay more taxes so that you can continue to live in one of the top cities (literally, out of thousands and thousands) on Earth.
And I'm kind of a right leaning guy, but the hesitation to any tax increase seems myopic, short-sighted, selfish and a bit disconnected to me.
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I am totally guilty of doing exactly this, but IMO this is the largest problem with the "centrist" "socially liberal but fiscally conservative" crowd. I am one of them. But it doesn't make sense- we need to pay for social liberties in a lot of ways. We can't do that without raising taxes. IMO the fiscally conservative part should come through massive transparency and careful spending, not through abhorrence of any sort of taxes or social spending. You can't pretend to care about people then just cheap out on doing it. At least be honest if you're going to do it that way- cut the #### and don't pretend you care about social matters. Just admit that money is the only thing that matters to you so people can see you for who you are.