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0 pointsTheOtherHobbes3y ago0 comments

There isn't a fixed amount of money. And taxes are only incidentally about public sector hiring.

There is (more or less) a fixed amount of power.

Taxes doesn't raise money, but they do redistribute and decentralise power, making it harder for the very rich to dominate economic and social strategy for their own ends.

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neilwilson3y ago

Except that if you have power, then by definition you can stop people redistributing it.

Otherwise you don't actually have power.

That concept is another fallacy of composition.

Taxes are there to reduce the capacity of the private sector to hire by reducing monetary flow. Without that you will get inflation.

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