• Roadkill 🇦🇺 @aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    Should the wealthy pay more fore everything?

    Fancy car? Extra $2 per litre to fill it, extra $500 for a service (you can afford it)

    Expensive clothes? Extra 50% tariff on dining out.

    High income? 50% loading on electricity and gas, groceries, haircuts etc.

    Obvious and obligatory / s

    I am not rich by any means (I have a car I pulled from a paddock and fixed, my clothes are from big w and opshops) but I dont begrudge those who have accumulated wealth, other than those who have done it by dodging taxes or by rorting the system.

    Maybe instead of stinging the rich to make others rich encourage philanthropy to lift up the least fortunate in society.

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      1 year ago

      “Perhaps if we give the rich even more money they will be more inclined to share that wealth with those below them, it’ll definitely work this time guys”

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      1 year ago

      Personally I believe charity to be an extremely inefficient way of distributing help. You’re essentially asking for numerous services with duplicated administration overheads that may even not provide their services equally. A more efficient way of spending money on care would be taxing the wealthy to expand government services.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t completely disagree with you. I don’t think charities in developed nations are an effective use of money for the reasons you described and tax is probably a better mechanism.

        But I would encourage you to look up effective altruism and specifically the book “the life you can save” by Peter Singer (perhaps Australia’s greatest intellectual export)

    • keeb420@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      some of those you might be able to make an argument. however being an american it really sucks to see people stripped of their assets when they get older because they cant pay for medical care. and i can easily see the conservatives in australia slowly making it so that “wealthy” just means everyone paying. today it might be a reasonable limit but in 20-40 years inflation will make it so that “reasonable” number is very unreasonable.