It also depends on the % of the rich that are cantilionaires who make money from this system.
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There are a lot of small and medium-sized parasites, too, not just Cantillionaires.
They feel they earned those taxpayer $$$ because they do the submission displays to the right bureaucrats, spend hours doing often literally pointless admin tasks, and risk losing big time to legal liability.
But little or none of their business's non-value-adding activity would be required or funded in a capitalist society.
I get paid by the hour, but often by these exact people.
Exactly... These people pontificating that they pay so much tax but are parasites themselves... Damn we live in communist hell.
People just want to rip other people off and feel justified in doing so. Any theory of society is practically that: post hoc rationalization.
The bureaucrats are the worst parasites. By sheer numbers they suck up so many resources and produce nothing for society.
If people want more efficient government one easy way to start would be to remove income taxes from the bureaucrats.
Make it very clear that theyβre not contributing, that they are purely recipients of other peopleβs money.
Governments make them pay income tax to obfuscate this fact, it allows them to claim they are contributing to society but itβs just roundtripping already stolen money to government for illusory purposes.
Ten years ago I would have heartily agreed, but I'm no longer sure the salaried, on-payroll bureaucrats are still the largest part of the problem.
Approved. Pre-approved. Compliant. Permitted. Registration. Authorised. Verified. Standardised.
All code-words for "private monopoly", or at least "private oligopoly".
And then we have the off-payroll bureaucrats: the middlemen, the assessors, the contractors, the industry associations, the lobbyists.
I think the salaried bureaucrats are only one of three. And the onion may have other layers I don't understand yet...