It does matter because different taxes have different upsides and downsides. Some are easier or harder to dodge, others create drag on the economy and dissuade productive activity while others have the opposite effect. In general income, capital gains, and corporate taxes create drag while land and estate taxes don't and so I find the latter two preferable to the others.
Its quite interesting that you think I'm the one trolling here because I want to take a nuanced approach. Why on earth would that be a bad thing?
To be clear, you don't either right? IIRC the social programs I'm advocating for here are "subsidizing corporations" in your view so presumably you're against cash transfers to the poor in favor of unions and restrictions on immigration.
You are a d-bag but it has more to do with the fact that you act in bad faith and engage in shallow thinking.
Yes, and I'm sure there's a lot of regulatory stuff that goes with that to close those loopholes. When the corporate tax rate was above 90% they effectively paid 45%. I call it nuance trolling because ultimately they need the shit taxed out of them and a lotta loopholes need to be closed, I'm not a politician and I don't need to know every detail of every way to do so, I know the problems and the broad solutions. Give you an example you'll appreciate: Does someone need to understand every detail of the history of the Israel/Palestine situation to understand that history didn't begin on October 7th? That Israel has committed a lot of violence against the Palestinians including a now ongoing genocide? People in that thread who are pro-Israel nuance troll. It's getting hung up on details or starting arguments about relative minutia to obfuscate the greater discussion.
I explained my position multiple times and you're not stupid. When a corporation exploits labor to the point where that person needs to utilize public services from layoffs, the shit Wal Mart gets up too, basically underpaying, etc and the public programs pick up the slack that is essentially the government subsidizing of corporate greed (the depressing of wages which contributes to that too), and that's not even mentioning the lobbying they do to get a favorable regulatory environment and lower their taxes.
What the actual fuck about that is hard to understand. Did I type that out in mandarin? I'm not going to repeat myself. And, I'll remind you, you're for that and in following those views one could easily reach the conclusion that you think the wealthy business interests that partake in these practices and buy off politicians give a fuck about social safety nets as they're trying to undermining the government and buying it off. Edit: The same business interests that engage in these practices, ain't exactly fans of public programs. This ties into getting money out of politics. You want social programs to be strong? Me too. Guess what powerful interests we're going to have to deal with to ensure they're strong, never mind getting a SPUHC system which would also empower workers (not stuck to jobs for healthcare) and make it easier to start businesses as the business owners wouldn't have to cover healthcare for their employees (though I think with a system like that there is a payroll tax for the system). And again, from my knowledge we're not lacking in tech workers, but even if we were, guess what would help with education? Free or at least cheap college. This stuff is all tangled together.
You think I'm a douche because I called you on your bullshit and I've not been polite to your recently. My charity and politeness only goes so far though.
You're soft on billionaires, you express flagrantly anti-labor views but then get butthurt when I call you anti-labor, not a single point of which you disagreed with because I quoted your own words and I also caught your boy Jack straight up lying and you ducked answering whether he lied as I quoted his own words which doesn't do wonders for your credibility. It's fine if you hold anti-labor positions, you said you're fine with companies undermining American labor to get cheaper labor from abroad, like bro, holy fuck that's anti-labor, and that's without getting into the ramifications of the exploitation of the global south. Just own it. It's fine. It's when you play this, "well no" game that it gets old quickly.
