Quote from: squatz1 on July 28, 2018, 05:28:57 AM

You're not able to simply avoid tax payments or anything along those lines. You're able to use creative accounting, which is a fine thing to use if you have the resources, and you're also able to lobby Congress to change the tax code.

The problem doesn't lie in the accounting or anything like that, the problem lies in the lobbying of Congress to change the tax code to benefit the higher earners in society. That is where the disparity lies, as the middle and lower class don't have the resources to change the laws which are holding them down. While the high earners do.

Who knows the best way to change this though.

Exactly, and this is a matter of taking advantage of the resources at your hand. If people are more clever at tax avoidance, then fine. It's their effort and hard work they put into it that should be rewarded. They aren't exactly cheating the system because they still pay the taxes, they are just using the system to their maximal advantage. But lobbying is bullshit, I agree. This is how minorities push their intolerances through to become laws.

Quote from: simon_garrison on August 05, 2018, 11:58:54 AM

I don't think that all rich people think taxes are good for nothing, but of course everybody would prefer to pay less. I just realized that it's strange that rich people could pay, for example 1 million dollars in taxes in a year. They will never actually use government services worth 1 million dollars. I wonder if there is a tax limit per person anywhere.

Yeah actually, a lot of rich people reached that level through constant perseverance and dedication. Especially self-made millionaires, who built up companies out of nothing. They deserve to pay less taxes in my opinion because they did a lot of work on their own, and they are actually contributing more to society than the government is by providing valuable products or services and employing a vast amount of people.