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Originally Posted by questor
What good are somebody's deep pockets if you have to close your business because of higher taxes? Suppose you are making a 10% profit and have adjusted your lifestyle to this. The gov raises your taxes 2% and gives the money to non-workers. Who loses here? Do you think all businesses should be punished by higher taxes? Where will the jobs come from?
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To be honest, I tend to think that there shouldn't be any taxes on businesses (except those which are useful to enact social change, i.e. taxes on cigarettes, or heavy polluters) because they simply end up getting passed on to the consumers. However, I think that you misrepresent taxes in a big way when you make it extreme. Most beneficiaries of taxes aren't people who just choose not to work - they are the elderly and the sick, they are people who want to work but are in between jobs (most people, the vast majority, who are on welfare are on it for less than six months). Then there are the taxes which go to helping everybody, like those which pay for police, fire, infrastructure, defense, government salaries, education...You can argue that the money is spent poorly, but I doubt you want to argue that there should be no money going to these things.
One of your problems questor is assuming that all liberals are the same, and share all the same beliefs. One of the problems of others on this site is assuming that all conservatives are the same, and share the same beliefs. There are as many ideologies as there are people, keep that in mind when talking about "conservatives" or "liberals" as though they are a unified group on all issues.
