So what? It's the PRESIDENT of EU, regardless of power... It says a lot about who's in charge of EU, the globalists. That's why BREXIT occurred, that's why Trump won: to fight them.
No, I don't make the decision on what to spend it on, the democratically elected legislature does. And if money is misspent, take it up with your elected officials.
Do you honestly believe that taxation is theft? It's existed as a fundamental requirement of civilization for millennia.
Utopian libertarianism is utterly unrealistic. For a philosophy that is wholly meritocratic, you would think the fact that no civilization adopted it as a fundamental principle would make it obvious how infeasible the concept is.
That's the problem. You should never be responsible to judge how he spends his money, that's his problem.
You never know. You don't know if it was only 10%, he could use those 40% much better than the "government", oh hell, be damn sure he would.
He could create companies, could fund companies, could put this money in funds, those funds would have to fund companies to earn money, these would generate jobs, education, etc.
Man, why does everyone assume that rich people just take their money and start companies? Do you realize how risky it is to start a business? You are highly likely to lose EVERYTHING you invest, as well as ruin your reputation, if you start a business from scratch and it fails to take off.
Almost all wealthy people just invest their money in stocks, hedge funds, VCs, and other intangible assets that don't immediately produce a noticeable economic impact, aside from a rise in the stock market.
What do you think the purpose of stocks and venture funds are? They are for starting and growing businesses. He/She doesn't have to start the business themselves.
"Times of higher tax burden have been economically more productive" -> this is just false, a falacy. Prove it somehow.
Sweden was a very rich nation before high taxes, now it's just rich, net jobs after high taxation in 50 years is ZERO. They are just letting go now, cutting taxes more and more.
I wonder why US economy is booming right now, maybe because Trump is going to cut taxes?!
Well, the government has defended you from foreign threats, protected the monetary system that lets you earn in the first place, provided for your public education, established your infrastructure, and been a check against your home burning down or being robbed. If everyone's entitled to what they've done, what are they entitled to?
Capitalism is a system, like any other, created by humans and not found in nature. "Ownership" is not some property of matter; what it means to own something is that there is a legal system that supports that deed and an armed police and military to enforce it. There is no concept of ownership except for a truly anarchic "everything I own is in a box that I have the key to" idea that does not require other people to guarantee your property rights.
Oops my ass. The US economy is not booming - the US stock market is artificially inflated because investment speculators are betting that companies are going to use this obscene period in time to take advantage and do whatever they want to increase corporate profits in further concentrate the wealth in smaller and smaller circles.
Opportunities as a young person costs 50% of what he makes?! Please don't pretend to be naive.
I thought it was common sense by now that this tax money goes to highly payed politicians, corruption, bad public administration, bad public programs, lazy people, etc.
A 10% tax should be the maximum a citizen should pay in any country.
And it will be in the future, distant future, but you can be damn sure that it will be.
Wrong, they should be happy it's not 90% or 100% of what he makes. Don't be naieve, why would you deserve anything when there are people who could wipe your life away with the stroke of a pen. Don't pretend you've deserved anything you've worked for. It has been granted to you by those in power as they have seen fit. Your petty idealism has no place in the real world.
You meant is a your utopian society. People who can make money can survive. People who can't are left to die. People who can protect themselves can survive. People who can't won't.
See people cheering the cutting of funding for Meals on Wheels make me want to vomit.
