Rath said:
Kasz216 said:
Rath said:
Kasz216 said:
If that's true, then there shouldn't be a need for progressive taxation, since if those people truley believe that they could support said programs volentairly, and since they're in large numbers.
You wouldn't need government mandates welfare, beause most people would donate too such programs anyway.
Well unless there attitude is "I should be taxed more, but until I do i'm going to blow all this money on myself!" Which somewhat comes off more a just a positon held as a selfjustifcation so they feel better about their selfishness.
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Or simply that there political views are that there should be government run welfare and healthcare programs and that the government should use progressive taxation to fund it. Holding that belief and not donating to charity is not hypocritical or contradictory.
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Sure there is. Afterall you can directly donate to the US treasury. Nobody does however.
If you think you should be taxed more, and have the ability to self tax yourself and don't... how isn't that hypocritical?
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Donating to the treasury is not being taxed. Pushing for higher taxes is a very different act than donating to the treasury - one is advocating a genuine change in the way a country is run and the other is little more than a gesture.
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Which if you don't make... makes you a hypocirt. Since by pushing for higher taxes you are saying "we don't need this money the government could use it better".
Except.. while your saying that... your still using that money. When you could give it to the government. It's not like the government is running a surplus right now.
It screams "I don't want to help anybody else unless other people are forced too as well."
