The wealth class tears up our roads, makes more use of our common infrastructure, and oh yeah, gains access to a pre-literate workforce despite wanting to starve all of it for tax breaks.
Progressive taxation simply means when you’re a winner in society, you get to pay back the society that provided all of the conditions that facilitated your success in the first place. Wouldn’t a sane person want to?
Instead they usually congratulate themselves, even upon inheritance, for having earned the exploited money in their portfolio with no help whatsoever.
We just need to reframe the issue for them. The alternative to getting to pay it back isn’t not having to pay it back. It’s us coming to take it back.
I think the wealthy should pay higher taxes, and a flat tax rate is stupid But I don’t think “the wealthy use more infrastructure” is a good argument to get there Arguably that use of infrastructure is to the benefit of all society right?
More C&H templates please :)
Fair is a funny concept. Do we all stay with the same amount, end with the same amount, spend the same amount, or get the same amount of utility from it? All could be fair. There are likely angles I have not noticed.
Wages should be flat with all earning the same.
Houses should be flat, and housing should cost the same everywhere.
Services should be flat, and provide the same benefits to all.
housing couldnt be flat because they arent equally located or built or maintained or sized or designed etc etc. oceanfront acreage couldn’t be the same value as isolated crime-ridden desert lacking utilities.
wages couldnt be flat due to expertise, stress, responsibility, hazards, hours, location, etc.Plus if houses were flat they would be hard to go inside.
But I don’t think Choice was actually proposing any of those thing could truly by flat in any equitable way, rather the opposite.
Let’s make everyone’s taxes 9-9-9. That’s the same type of deal that works at pizza restaurants, so of course it’ll be good for the country. Only the biggest brains can think of this, which coincidentally means I’m too smart for vaccines.
What do you mean I’m dead from covid? And my twitter corpse is still promoting the conservative policies that killed me?
Anyway, flat tax!
While I support this message, replacing the dialog in the third panel significantly undermines the original joke.
Both is best. Flat tax for everyone, the wealthy have additional taxes.
it’s effective at extremely long distances
