Representative Democracy ☀
Ours is a republic, not a democracy. Democracy is simply mob rule, and I thought leftists were big on the whole “just because you’re the majority doesn’t mean you’re right” stuff.
A republic is a form of democracy, namely, representative democracy, as opposed to Athenian style direct democracy. And a representative, Republican form of government can trample on the rights of minorities just as much or greater than forms of direct democracy.
And the easiest way to keep “elites” from evading taxes is keeping them low enough that it’s not cost-effective to attempt to evade them and to eliminate the corporatist-fascist relationship with government that grants the favors, exemptions, subsidies, protections, tariffs, and bailouts.
No. The rate of taxation has no bearing whatsoever on evasion efforts. If taxes can be avoided, then those measures will undoubtedly be invoked.
Again, the empirical economic history of the United States of America bears out the folly in this corporate anti-tax mantra — the “golden age” of flourishing economic advancement and greatest enlargement of prosperity for citizens at all planks of the class pyramid occurred when tax rates were at much higher rates. And the United States became a global economic powerhouse when its tariffs were also at enormous levels compared to present time. This is factual record, as opposed to the anti-wealth-creation sophistry being spit out by economic utopian dreamscape libertarians and parroted by minions who do not realize they are advocating for a banana republic or worse, the model of Somalia.
(Source: the-american-interest.com)
