this post was submitted on 24 Sep 2023
512 points (96.0% liked)
Technology
59157 readers
3239 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I know that's how it works. I'm complaining because the way it works is bullshit.
Well taxation is completely necessary unless you have a steady stream of cash flowing into the government from another source, which almost no country has and no country will have indefinitely.
We can argue about rates and cut offs but taxation in general is not a bad system
Taxation is bullshit when it causes your standard of living to be significantly lower than it would be without taxation. I could be living comfortably right now instead of scraping by if the government didn't have it's hand in my pocket at every turn. Tax the people who have money to spare.
And now that I've typed all that I actually read the last part you said about rates and cutoffs... I'm gonna leave this here anyway since typing it got some of the angry out of me.
I can assure you my job is not paying me extra to make up for taxes. They're not even keeping up with COL increases.
@lightnsfw
And yet, amazingly, you're blaming taxes and not your employer.
My employer has no expectation to look out for my best interests. They're trying to get as much work out of me for as little pay as possible and vice versa. If either of us could find a better deal tomorrow we'd drop the other one in a heartbeat. The government presumably should be working in my favor as that is what I'm voting/paying them for.