• jve@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    that’s what higher taxes do

    Higher taxes cause people to tend to give back to their communities instead of hoarding wealth?

    I thought higher taxes forced them to give money to the government, who may or may not do that.

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      27 days ago

      Taxes is how people give back to their communities, their wants have nothing to do with that. That’s kind of the only way, rich people will never voluntarily give money away otherwise, that’s why they’re rich in the first place.
      In a democracy, the government is “the people”.