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A New Front In The War?: "Why Gender Equality Requires More Tax Revenue"
08-31-2015, 12:01 AM
It says if tax money is "raised progressively and spent wisely" gender equality can be had.
There's two inherent faults there. First, excessively progressive tax codes with no incentives to earn more will result in less revenue, not more. As a married father of three, I need to earn more knowing that my kids and wife need to be provided for. If the government will take care of women and children, what's the incentive for a young single man to earn more than what he needs to get by?
Second, "spent wisely"....
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A New Front In The War?: "Why Gender Equality Requires More Tax Revenue"
08-31-2015, 12:06 AM
In the long run, I don't worry about things like this because of economics. In this case, from your quote, it seems they assume that tax revenues can simply be raised at will forever. The catch you and I know, of course, is that tax revenue has to come from somewhere, namely the private sector. And unlike the government, a truly private sector isn't obligated to operate. It can move abroad, be replaced by better competition abroad (especially if they're not allowed to move abroad), or simply shut down (even in the case of a world government). In any case, no more tax revenue.
Of course, a truly SJW-government doesn't care about tax revenues. They'll spend whether they have the money or not (including tax cuts with no concurrent spending cuts). But even in that case, eventually, reality is going to set in, and the credit card will be deactivated. Germany may bail out Greece, but who will bail out Germany when the time comes? Even if other countries bail out Germany, who will bail those countries out when their time comes? Either someone says no or you eventually run out of bailout countries.
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A New Front In The War?: "Why Gender Equality Requires More Tax Revenue"
08-31-2015, 07:54 AM
Representing "people's opinions" (read - elite's interest) means that as a government you want to tax as much as you can, so you can have resources to spend on what "suits" your opinions.
Governments usually look at taxes as a "given", but they are not.
In order to tax more - you need the people to earn more.
But if you have a different agenda (e/g/ - war, gender equality, ideology of any sort etc.) - than you have a conflict between "wanting more money" (=taxes) and how to spend them.
Looking at "gender equality" means that you want to tax males in order to create "equality". This means that males will have less incentive to work - migrate/work less/drop out.
Parkinson has taught us that government never does anything "wisely".
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A New Front In The War?: "Why Gender Equality Requires More Tax Revenue"
08-31-2015, 06:06 PM
Progressivism is a wonderful money making scheme.
There is a problem? Well the solution is cut checks to the poor, and create jobs for the middle class to administer that money, taxing productive people for it.
Oh we are fine? Eh invent some problem, wash rinse repeat.
It is a very effective way to consolidate political power, it is nothing but largess, that most ancient political tactic. Jobs for the boys, free stuff for the commoners.
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A New Front In The War?: "Why Gender Equality Requires More Tax Revenue"
09-03-2015, 12:03 PM
It's hardly a "new front". These organizations often exist solely because of government money that is funneled into their causes, whether indirectly via subsidy receiving businesses or directly from government grants. If that ever dries up SJW-ism is going to go belly up very quickly.