Life is made to be lived, not for working.
We should increase taxes income by making everybody pay their fair share, and these include multinational corporations, and implement some sort of UBI. Where people can have a decent life without being forced to work if it is not a choice.
> Where people can have a decent life without being forced to work if it is not a choice.
Who will choose to work rather than get something for free?
I'll tell you: the same people who would pay taxes if it were not mandated by the threat of jail - that is, people who contribute to charity.
That is typically less than 1% of earnings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_charitabl...
I believe very few people will choose to work, and therefore "decent lives" for the masses can not be maintained with this little work.
Define fair share, it's not clear to me what that is.
That it is my opinion, and you can discard it.
But I believe that if we tax small business a certain amount, big corporations should pay, at the very least, the same amount.
Again, it is not a scientific argument, it is a political one, and honestly I don't want to be dragged in a technical discussion about taxation.
Of course emotions are involved. That isn't inherently bad.
Yes actually. And I definitely don't try to couch my political views in moral stupidity like "fairness" which you are not even capable of explaining.
>Of course emotions are involved. That isn't inherently bad.
Of course it's not inherently bad. It's definitely bad when you can't even explain your position coherently but feel strongly enough about it to get into heated arguments.
That doesn't mean we've slaves to our emotions, or must make irrational decisions based on our whims.
But it is a foolish thing to say you are 100% free of emotions in your views, especially when that incorrect view is wielded as a cudgel against opposing viewpoints (which we apparently aren't even "capable of explaining").
No it's not. You just make all these statements that are baseless. I can say my political beliefs are based on rationality because my political beliefs are simple.
I never said my views are free from emotion. I said my views are 100% based on reason. I vote in my direct self interest, my values are based on my self interest, my goals are to advance my self interest.
E.g. Is it in your self-interest, that people live in a system where 1/300 are toiling away till they can't, so a guy can sit on a rocket? Is it an incredibly simple answer?
The whole point of taxes is solidarity. If you don't understand basic principles of being civil then good luck in your life.