| bdbdbd said: Well, I think I said already, that taxing the rich results to a taxing everyone else. Taxing fortunes above 150k is taxing the middle class while the rich leave, just as I pointed out. Keep in mind that Norway is expensive and it has high taxes already, so there isn't many people who actually could leave in the first place. You tax the property of the middle class who can't leave as tax refugees. The country has billion more to spend but the people have a billion less. Did Norway win or lose with the total taxes collected? |
I think I said somewhere else, if increasing taxes just trivially results in a tax on everyone else, then why is there so much fighting for tax increases? If the costs are just offset elsewhere, why bother spending any money fighting them, then?
The end result that matters is whether they are getting a good return on it. If those billion dollars are replacing 5 billion dollars of expenses, that is a massive net win. And that other part of it doesn't get talked about other than some generic statements like "someone using someone else's money is very inefficient with it" and "government is obviously more inefficient" - even when there's data that says otherwise.
