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by lenerdenator 470 days ago
> Unless you're one of the wealthy you're talking about (which would be odd to say the least), no one is asking you to pay for government services for somewhere between dozens to thousands of your fellow citizens who pay approximately $0 federal income tax on average, so it's not the same.

Really? You think I don't pay for services I don't use?

> Hint: it's not actually your company. Those people actually employ you.

Do they? What do they know of the company? If I asked the beneficiary of a pension fund what the company does and where it was headquartered, would they know?

> Confiscatory tax rates are counterproductive, other than making the envious far left feel better about themselves.

It's not far left to want general stability in your society. People with too much money and a government with too much debt are destabilizing forces.

The world is literally filled with examples of how this works, if you'd stop pretending that the current system in the US is working.