Do you consider yourself more left or right wing?

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RolStoppable said:

bdbdbd said:

That's because everyone consider "rich" as the top-10 or so people with highest fortune, not top 10 percent of earners. Also, many of the poorest understand that raising taxes isn't going to make their situation any better. When taxes are being raised, everything becomes more expensive. 

Taxes on the rich mean either one of two things or the two things combined:

1. Tax on wealth, be it in possession or on an inheritance.
2. Tax on income.

Neither of which is going to make anything more expensive for the regular citizen.

But they do. If income tax is raised, you need to raise wages so that you earn same as you did before, which turns to raising prices for customers.

If you tax wealth - which usually is shares or apartments and such - your wealth need to create more income to pay the taxes. More dividents require higher prices, you need to raise rents if they tax your apts you're renting and so on.

The money has to some somewhere always and in a modern capitalistic society it comes from the market.