I mean, taxes help pay for roads. I want there to be taxes. We just need the rich to pay their fair share.
Yep, but usually the middle and low classes are the ones which receives the more negative impact. There can be others way to get funds, like having oil stations owned by the state, and using their profit as taxes.
What if the profit doesn’t cover the cost of building and maintaining the roads?
Probably it does, but even if it doesn’t there must be a way not involving taxes
Not all taxes are regressive.
😎 “Not all larceny is regressive”
You can simply compensate people for work labored. Food distribution is a great motivator.
My genuinely schizophrenic friends really don’t like when schizophrenia is used as the punchline of a joke.
I don’t like downvotes or negative comments about my drawings neither, but unlike you, I’m tolerant and open minded
I got bad news for you.
oh, you really want to “hurt” me with that?
Hey dude just a heads up what you’re doing here is called “punching down” and is generally considered poor form.
You can do better.
Thanks man
At first I thought the artist was ignorant, or perhaps making fun of that position by presenting it in a particularly unflattering way. But no, you’re just an asshole.
haha, you’re so angry man ^^
What’s a “schizophrenic civilization”?
The one where you’re living on Earthling, sorry :/
Am I missing the joke, or is this potentially offensive towards people with schizophrenia?
Get a life
Get an actually funny comic.
haha, you’re so angry man ^^
Not really. This one panel comic is legitimately not funny.
It is, trust me ^^
You are the only one who thinks so.
Me and at least 121 other people who left the upvote
Ah yes. I forgot we’re in the MAGA era of the world. My apologies.
You are the one behaving like an ICE officer with your interrogations
Using liberal dog whistles for likes. Cool. Lemmy can see through it.
Not sure what does it mean, but my guess is you’re still behaving like you were some kind of judge, police officer or authority demanding explanations. My prescription for you is: get a life, find a boyfriend. A decent life will allow you to get rid of your hate.
Thank you oh wise one
You’re welcome. Hope my wisdom didn’t “offend” you
Ignorance is not some genetic trait treated with medication but a temporary condition that can be solved with education.
Schizophrenia is neither indicative of nor required for a person to be fooled or coerced into paying money to the bourgeoisie.
I don’t think blind compliance is about ignorance. Many of the most educated people in the world support the existence of taxes
Taxation refers to charges paid by an organization or individual which are mandated by a government organization.
Regardless of socialist or capitalist structure, some form of taxation will exist if the government is at all involved in regulating/redistributing capital. If you’re capitalist you want subsidies, so taxation. If you’re liberal you want the illusion of welfare, so taxes. If you’re a socialist you want basic needs to be socialized, so taxes. Etc.
Are you a libertarian?
I’m anarchist. I think freedom can solve many problems in the world, but I don’t like capitalism, because it’s about competition. My ideal world would be a cooperative anarchism.
Even in an anarchist society, the movement of goods/services to those in need would arguably be taxes.
For example, say you are in a fully anarchist community. If your community needs help collecting/producing some resource and you refuse to help, you won’t be a member of the community for long. The community (the government organization in this case) mandates that its members cooperate with the community. The charge may not be monetary, but human labor is still capital, capital that you are expected to pay towards the community.
The implementation of taxes is frequently corrupt/questionable, but the idea itself is not
Well, yes, community would be like a family where everybody has to help to maintain it. But unlike our current system, the individual would participate in the decisions, instead of voting the guy who takes the decision on his behalf (and very often against his own interest and will).
Yes, thats my point, centralization and hierarchy of power is typically the problem with these systems, not taxes
Saw the comic, gave my downvote, thought I maybe misunderstood and checked the comments. Nope, just a really stupid take.
I thought it was just blatant satire or something, implying that it’s crazy that we don’t tax the rich. Then I read the comments. It was not satire and OP is a cunt to boot. Wow.
Your mom didn’t say so last night, haha ^^
So you make shitty web comics and then argue with people who dislike them (because they’re shitty to begin with). Living your best life, I see.
haha, it seems you haven’t read the conversations fully: I only argue with haters, not with “dislikers”. I never start an argument. Show me only one conversation in which I had started one.
Proving the point nicely.
What point? haha ^^
So also dumb. That tracks.
You obviously didn’t get it. Irony is only for smart people
It’s ok, you’re just angry
Your comic isn’t funny.
I respectfully disagree
Well you’re wrong.
No, I’m not
Says the wrong person.
Says the right one, haha ^^
The only way taxes become unecessary is if money, and a profit based society, stops existing.
If not, well…
- The guys fixing the roads need to be paid a fair wage to afford rent, food, and amenities.
- The nurses at the hospital need to be paid a fair wage to afford rent, food, and amenities.
- The librarians need to be paid a fair wage to afford rent, food, and amenities.
- The postal workers all need to be paid a fair wage to afford rent, food, and amenities.
- The office workers slaving away at a desk to manage all the government’s resources and finances need to be paid a fair wage to afford rent, food, and amenities.
That’s the point, instead of money society should use a community bartering system in an anarchist context. Not a direct 1 to 1 person barter, because that would complicate things, but a community to community one
Never thought Liberals had major schizophrenia.
I honestly just thought they were greedy duplicitous people who never hesitated to oppress others if it meant having a better lifestyle than the victims.
In psychology, we just call it dissonance.Exactly. Not sure if all the liberals, but the woke division of them are the worst haters ever, in a endless war against common sense and coherence. They behave like police officers demanding explanations and rectification all the time
common sense
Stop believing on this myth. You and I have the curse of knowing that Liberals are authoritarians when it conveniences their greedy aspirations.
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