ShadowDimentio wrote:ohnopigeons wrote:Grazyn wrote:A socialist utopia wouldn't even have money. If the workers have the power, people would use labour vouchers to acquire goods. But it is just that, utopia. We should strive for it, but there are easier steps to make that can bring about social equality in some ways.
How many times are people going to fall for the abolishment of currency meme.
I dunno, people are stupid enough to believe communism is a viable system of governance and that Marx wasn't an imbecile who was wrong about nearly everything.
Marx suggested giving every worker a gun and gun rights so they could defend themselves from capitalists and crooked politicians, and a whole lot of other very positive and reasonable things
Jokes on him though, he just got remembered for 'Lets just take the rich's stuff'
As for the tax rate on the rich- It's high only because they bullshit the taxes already. There's so many completely legal loopholes for both rich persons and for organizations that raising the taxes on them won't help pay for anything. Instead of 'Tax the rich more', the idea should be to simplify the system and eliminate all the bullshit that lets them avoid paying to begin with.
And then not all taxes are equal, a tax on dividends, stocks, rent income, management bonuses, and so on can be reasonably high. Taxes on profits, products, and basic operational needs should be kept low.
That's as far as I can be arsed to write, I'm not running for office or some shit so I'm not going to look into it further