As of July 1, 2015, citizens of Chicago who enjoy their Netflix, Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Prime, Xbox Live, and/or PlayStation Network subscriptions are now subject to the city’s 9 percent “tax

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mountaindewslave said:

Robert_Downey_Jr. said:
To all of you saying how you already pay for stuff like this, that's the point! We don't want to have more taxes like other countries and liberals, no matter how often they claim to be fighting for the working people, continue to tax them on stuff like this. I thought they only liked to tax the rich? Apparently I'm rich because I have Playstation Plus lol

I agree. the thing that is absurd is often we have poorer brackets of people being charged the same percentages as the ultra rich and elite. if those with billions of dollars were just taxed like 50% of all of their income than their wouldn't even need to be many taxes for the poor. would that be fair? in my eyes, because no one should be infinitely wealthy while others struggle

 

in the end though to encourage higher taxes is to encourage larger government which is unnecessary in a capitalist economy to a certain extent. the economy shouldn't be so strongly connected to the government and the government should not be essentially a business itself. EVERY single economic transaction shouldn't be money into the governments pockets

privatize education, privatize business, privatize it all. we're headed to a socialistic society where everything is monitered and freedoms are limited so that in exchange everyone can have more 'equality' and so everything is circular and that the people pay the government so the government can help the people. it's not a terrible concept idealy but it in the end hurts freedoms because all citizens are forced into the system and the reality is that the government is far from efficient in how it handles funds

If I believed that these govt. leaders weren't just in this to increase their own powerbase I'd trust this stuff a lot more.  People are so easily fooled into thinking people are outsiders to politics even with people like Obama who has spent his life in politics playing the same game as the rest of them.  

I don't mind if someone like Bill Gates is outrageously rich because he founded a company that employs tens of thousands of people and runs devices that make all our lives easier.  He changed the world.  Now that's not to say that everyone has earned their money in those legit ways and they should certainly be taxed more but not enough to scare entrepenuers and such away from the US into a country that won't tax them and their business as much.