Controversial opinion(s) 2

Ditto. I honestly believe that it is every working class person's patriotic duty to avoid as much taxation as possible.

Barter, do side jobs for cash, whatever. Whatever way you can figure to keep the fruit of your labor in your own pocket, do it.


If worst comes to worst, i can think of not many more honorable reasons to be imprisoned as a working class person than tax evasion.

We have got to stop rewarding this system for bad behavior. If I don't work I don't get paid. It should be the same for the system.

yes its annoying, but how to pay for the military to protect you, or the police, fire brigade, i could go on, seriously pay your taxes and dont have all your stuff taken away by the bailiffs, the onyl way to aboid taxes is to go off grid, dont work, be a tramp/bum, liv eon the streets, hav eno home, no job, nothing, be free

There has got to be a better way. Starting by holding the ultra rich accountable and due to pay even a portion of their fair share seems like a healthy way to progress if you ask me.

I am the opposite here. I think taxation is a net positive in society as it exists. The only real situation where I would view taxation as not necessary would be in the achievement of a cashless society or resource based economy. Which I am ultimately in favor of pursuing.

I believe this because I think shared public infrastructure and essential services are better operated by singular enterprises that do not have a profit motive. I would like to see ways to give motivation for efficiency, but definitely not profit. Profit motives have been dragging society backwards lately. We've really slowed down solving problems and started focusing on continual revenues by treating symptoms and engineering short term solutions that require constant repurchase.

When it comes to 'keeping all of the money that I work hard for', I square that by considering my taxes as money that isn't mine to begin with.

My position is probably more controversial in that I believe we should have 90% or higher tax rates on incomes over one million per year. Additionally, I think we should have a wealth tax for assets valued over five hundred million. With exemptions for actively managed agricultural land. The idea is to tax people with massive stock and corporate holdings, but not ding farmers and ranchers. It gets set pretty high so that it also doesn't hit retirement accounts.

The incomes from these additional taxes would ideally be put towards UBI programs.

I largely agree.

So, I'm not going to say the taxation system is perfect, because that's bullshit. But at least hypothetically, that's exactly what taxes are supposed to go toward. It's literally supposed to be everybody pooling their money to pay for maintenance stuff.