[deathcakes]

You're quite right, my apologies, I saw a thing and wrote a response to something you hadn't said.

I suppose I mean to say that this is the thing really - income tax on its own is not working, evidently, given that it is so easily avoided. Surely the idea is that everyone should want to commit as much as they can to the furtherment of their community, nation and species. The very fact that things like this, game-theoretic winner-take-all, tax "avoidance" (because it's legal, therefore morally fine), exist is enough to make me wonder if there is any point at all to my existence, let alone the existence of the poor sods who aren't fortunate to make even as much as I.

But then I strongly suspect I'm a lefty pinko communist and shouldn't be trusted in a proper discussion about actual fiscal policy.

[hueving]

There are many people that don't view the expansion of a government's budget as the 'furtherment of their community'. When you hold the view that governments are full of corruption and incompetence, then the moral thing to do is deprive it of as much income as possible.