Forum Post: Stop using public goods if you don't want to contribute your fair share
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 11, 2011, 10:40 p.m. EST by Publius1981
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To the 1% and its philosophical backers - you can stop paying taxes and offshore your earnings and labor if you stop using public infrastructure and benefiting from the positive externalities of public goods (i.e. investment in education). Deal?
They pay sales taxes. They indirectly pay property taxes through their rent. And when it's 8 percent on a loaf of bread - in many Southern US states, food is taxed, it hurts a lot more than $100k of disposable income that would be invested in derivatives.
The one percent pay sales tax and property tax too. What do you think the property tax on a 2 million dollar home is in comparison to a $150,000 home?
If they followed their beliefs to their logical conclusion, yes, but no one is going to give up what they get from the government for their taxes (and what they pay to service our debt to foreign and corporate lenders), nor should they.
In fact, there's a large percentage of folks who take way more out of the system than they put in.
So 47% of US citizens will no longer be able to use public services?
True, dat. Nearly half the people in this country pay no income taxes at all. Guess they'll have to sit out too.