[saubeidl]

I voluntarily pay the taxes I am required to pay without resorting to any sketchy schemes to undermine the intent of tax law.

I also vote for parties that run on raising taxes on wealthy individuals like myself. It is a membership fee for living in a functioning society.

[nradov]

There's nothing "sketchy" about not wanting to pay extra taxes on free user accounts, so your response is disingenuous.

[saubeidl]

Sketchy is in the eye of the beholder.

In more corporate terms, my user sentiment has dropped given the way US companies have been trying to avoid paying their fair share.

[nradov]

How much exactly would be "fair"? Give us a specific number and show your work.

[saubeidl]

Look, I'm no economist, I don't know the exact numbers.

I can tell you however, that Bezos and his oligarch friends booking out a Venice that is sinking from climate change, while people suffer without health insurance and we still don't have high speed rail as built out as it needs to be is definitely not my understanding of fair.

And again, I say this as somebody that I also think should be taxed more. To live this well while so many people and projects need the resources more is unconscionable.

Leave the implementation details to the experts and elected officials. It's clear which direction we need to move in though.

[nradov]

So in other words you have no clue and are just making stuff up. If you want to donate more money to the government then go ahead, no one is stopping you.

[saubeidl]

That's not at all what I said and you know it. Shame on you for using such a bad-faith interpretation in your defense of the indefensible. The details of how we try to bend our capitalist system do not interest me because it is an inherently broken system. It is because of selfishness like yours that we will all die in the climate catastrophe.

Fair would be Bezos and his ilk getting the Jack Ma treatment, oligarch fortunes reclaimed by the people and used for solving the climate crisis. But we won't get fair. Meanwhile greedy little moneygrabbers argue over some little tax. Ridiculous.