[bilekas]

This is a bit of a nieve view and I also get the sentiment you think taxes are some kind of punishment. Taxes are a charge on running the country and infrastructure good enough so that your business can profit and enhance an economy. If you think compabies are being taxed too much then you don't grasp how much profits they're actually making. And how much of the countries resource and infrastructure they take up.

[roenxi]

I don't think you have gotten the sentiment at all. How did you get from what I wrote to seeing taxes as a form of punishment?

[mjan22640]

I guess the comparison to drinking a poison and having to not work, which sounds like you think that taxes are damaging. Taxes are the whip part of the monetary system, that compels everybody to work significantly more than they would otherwise, and which is behind the good things that you attribute to corporations.

[ricardobeat]

> It is like mandating a minimum number of days people must not work, or that they have to ingest poison on

Sounds like you think that’s a bad thing (aka punishment).

By the way, the former is called “holidays” and is regulated by law in the majority of the world, the US is the odd one out. Even China has a 11-day minimum vacation policy.

[roenxi]

Ah, fair enough. If you read the entire paragraph you will note that that was as out of stupidity and ignorance of the damages, not as a punishment. Nobody is trying to punish companies. I mean, case in point. Do you think holidays are an attempt to punish people? Obviously not.

And nobody forces people to take holidays. There are people who work two jobs, work on weekends, work over Christmas and founders that work 30 day months. All legal.