• stressballs@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

    to keep their riches

    Avoiding paying taxes is different than keeping your own wealth. What they do is more like stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars every year, literally from hungry kids in need.

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    3 months ago

    the solution is to eliminate income taxes, and replace them with a national Land Value Tax on business properties, excise taxes and fines on anything that causes “negative externalities” (aka pollutants), and fees on every equities market transaction. That way these are way harder to avoid, and don’t depend on self reporting