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Teeqoz on 11 June 2018
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DonFerrari said:
Teeqoz said:

Federal taxes in the US have genreally been decreasing, while inequality has generally been increasing. This sort of shoots a hole in your theory that taxes are the source of this inequality. Not to mention that the developed countries with the most social mobility are countries with high taxes and large governments, like Denmark, Canada, Norway and Finland.

Haven't said taxes are the source of inequality, have said it is a usage of money transfer from poor to rich through the relationship of these with the government.

Go and see if Denmark, Norway and Finland have a free market or not.

Norway, Demark and Finland all have a free market with some regulations, like most developed nations. I'm not sure what your point is? I never argued against having a free market. It has literally nothing to do with what I said.

 Do you think taxes transfer money from the poor to the rich, but at the same time you don't think taxes cause inequality? You can't pick one, the first implies the second and vice versa. If taxes take money from the poor and give to the rich it necesarily causes economic inequality (not the only cause, but it necessarily has to be one of the causes).