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[–] Emi@ani.social 13 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

I might be wrong but I think people would gladly pay 50% of their income as tax if it meant they would get their basic needs met and see the money be put to a good use. Imagine getting just half your pay but be able to fully use it on whatever you want and not have to worry about food and rent. Or at least that's what I'd like to believe.

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

The Blackfoot nation on which Maslow based his hierarchy of needs would actually have a celebration each year where they'd give everything they'd amassed away.

The actual basis for the "hierarchy" of needs is essentially that a community takes care of each other so that all needs are met, and this is found not just in Blackfoot but along the majority of indigenous cultures. (I write in quotes because it was never really a hierarchy, it was more of a cyclical chain of getting needs met)

There's a really good read on what inspired the Hierarchy of Needs here. Most of the changes that Maslow made to his findings were actually due to him wanting to make it more palatable for his individualistic colonial audience.

[–] Shiggles@sh.itjust.works 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The tax being on your income and not entirely on corporations always felt like a fairly biased distinction. If companies paid the entire income tax long before it got to you, and you were simply paid ~2/3rds as much, I feel like people’s opinions would be different despite not much changing.

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Tax laws are usually made to make it easy to collect, hard to dodge taxes.

If companies pay all the tax I could create a company, invoice my current employer, pay myself a salary that is equal to the entire profit margin. There is nothing left to tax.

You could try to patch the loophole but then you'll break down something else.

[–] zxqwas@lemmy.world -2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Where I live a majority of the voters are generally okay with high taxes (35%-50%) as long as it's only shared with other people who works and pays taxes.

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

And what about the less fortunate? The infirm and disabled? They can rot?

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Plenty of people think they're already getting more than they need and anyone who says otherwise is just pretending to be ill to get a free ride at the taxpayers' expense, and could just get a job if they wanted. The right wing press pushes this narrative and people fall for it.

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Agreed, just wanted to see if the OP would admit to it as well. Fully expect either no response or a passing of the buck along the lines of ‘I want to help who need it, but people hypothetically could take advantage of the system so let’s just scrap the whole thing.’

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

I didn't read it as the OP expressing their own opinion, but instead sharing what the majority of voters in their area think.