All taxation is theft.
The paradigm of taxation by the "state" was first developed in lower Mesopotamia and first perfected by Sargon of Akkad in the 23rd century BC.
Every State since then has adhered to the same paradigm of "legal theft" from the productive in society in the name of the "common good" as defined by the State that was "legally" stealing other people's wealth.
Every State in recorded history since the time of Sargon has eventually collapsed because States can only grow, and can never retract, and there comes a time in the life of a State when too great a percentage of the populace subsists upon the wealth confiscated from the productive in society that create all the wealth in the first place.
We have long passed the point here in the US, and in most Western 1st World countries, where half the population or more of bloated leech parasites are being supported by the rest of us just trying to make our way and pay our taxes and be left alone.
It will not go well when the West finally collapses. I blame Leftist vermin. Most all of them suck their livings from the taxpayers.
Any other questions about taxation?
Unfortuantely Rennel/Reggie, this attitude of undertaxing ccertain groups, such as Big Tech, has led to this monopoly they have, and excessive concentration of power where they bully the Right in America and fuck them around, right? Just like zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Sergei Brun of google do to control and manipulate these guys. Plus they crush their competition like Parler into submission.
You think low taxation rates benefit upper income earners and bashes the poor, but in fact it's marginalized the Right or Conservatives in America too.
I don't know the benefits of loweiring tax rates to the point where it grants certain elites absolute and unlimited power over everyone.
You can read the words but their basic meaning eludes you ... is that a Canadian thing, Joe?
It's not taxation which collapses an economy or civilization, it's failing to pay attention to the fundamentals and undertaking funny money economic policies.
What we've been doing since 1980 when Ronald Reagan was president.
Like driving up the national debt way beyond its ability to pay it back.
Or printing money instead of having real money on hand.
Like not balancing the budget.
So whether the society gets the money from taxation or actualy economic output, when it failes to balance the books and then prints fake money to cover the costs/shortfall, that's when it gets into trouble.
Isn't that what George W Bush said after your country posted the largest surpluses in history?
Said something about fuzzy math, he wanted massive tax cuts so the deficits would go up and so that the corrupt bastard could wage all those wars in the middle east and make the USA go broke.
did poor people cause the USA to go broke within 20 short years?
Did they wage all those overseas wars?
did they ask to serve and die in them?
USA and other nations too living way beyond their means.
thinking they don't have to pay the taxes needed for the services they get.
BTW, this includes the poor as well.
If all of us paid for the actual services we get - police, fixing water/sewer pipes, fire;/ambulance, our taxes would be much much. higher.
You can't get something for nothing and if it's all financed on debt, then we're all living on borrowed time.