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  • I once heard a theory we should not tax incoming money but outgoing money. So with income tax it is not that you pay over what you receive but your employer pays tax before you get it (like you pay vat when you buy something). I am no expert but it sounded like it would really work on big corps and rich people because the bank would have to pay taxes when they pay you interest, the broker would pay tax when they pay your profits on shares. Can’t imagine it be easy to overhaul the whole system, but it would take away the ‘responsibility’ of paying taxes from the person who owns the money and puts this responsibility on the person who’s parting from the money.





  • Where are you seeing owls being enslaved in the article?

    To be honest I only read the title, bumped into a paywall when i clicked the link and couldn’t be bothered to put more effort in it.

    And even if they were being enslaved, that’s better than minefields of (artificial) poison in our (natural) environment.

    I do agree on this.

    Even if you’re a vegan, there’s enslaved hordes of plants behind your survival.

    But not on this, although i am not gonna argue why slave animals is a thing and slave plants is not a thing.

    It’s always what’s better.

    You’re right, it’s finding the balance - that was the topic of my comment basically.