Sure, communism will work this time, because it’s different! Not like the other hundred times it failed and the millions of people it killed and impoverished !

Communism is bad because it legalizes theft, if 51% of the people decide to take off the remainder 49% you have a nice recipe for disaster which has happened over and over again in the last 120 years.

But sure, your comments tell me you live in a fantasy world of books and theories instead of the real world, where reality is much simpler and crueler.

Keep on living in Disney.

You pay what you consume, and first need items like groceries are excluded, it's a great tax. Rich people buy more stuff than poor people, therefore they pay more sales tax than poor people (Ask WA how is it doing by imposing a millionaire's income tax, those people are leaving and they are losing sales/property tax revenue due to that). Same with property tax, to buy a bigger house you need more money, and the bigger the house the larger the property tax you pay. Don't want to pay huge property taxes? Buy smaller property. So, all in all, the logic still applies, if you consume more because you have more money, you contribute more to tax revenue.

Income tax should also be flat, as you would still pay more the more you earn.

> I presume that you were here during covid, and must have realized that the "essential" workers were predominantly the lowest paid people in the US. That should clue you into the fact that people contribute a lot more to society than taxes!

Nope, in Canada at the time, we could go out and to supermarkets for groceries. If the government hadn't imposed such strict lockdowns in some states, there would have been no need for the "essential" workers, if you mean delivery people. Otherwise, health care specialists tend to be very well paid, though covid was a shit show.

Yeah, the American revolution was based on the premise of no taxation without representation, and I know first hand how that feels as an immigrant, paying taxes and having no say on how they are used, and there are a lot of us paying a lot of taxes and having no say on them.

> prosperity and rights

Prosperity yes, rights you only get if you have a green card (and only some), if you are on a visa the second shit hits the fan you get kicked out (and even the green card may not protect you on that). You truly don't realize what a privilege you have by having citizenship. You should try being an immigrant so you get off your high horse.

It actually saddens me seeing how current politics of big government and the rise of the DSA and communism in the USA are screwing up a country which is great.

In the USA, the top 10% of all incomes account for 71% of all income tax, meaning the lower 90% only contribute 29%. Income taxes are governed by a power law (Pareto) where the very few account for most of the income.

https://usafacts.org/articles/who-pays-the-most-income-tax/

The government as it is today and in most western countries is super progressive with its taxes and benefits for its population. I don’t think it’s good nor just to charge someone more simply because they have more, that’s pretty unjust, why do they have to pick up the slack and maintain people who don’t try to get out of their situation?

I come from a 3rd world country where we now have 2/3 generations who have grown living only on government welfare instituted by the governing party to earn their votes, while the productive few are choked by taxes and forced to leave the country, how is that just?

So yes, the government should prioritize the few that actually make money and try to get more of the population that way, as they are the ones funding government.

And of course you don’t want poor people from other countries which are used to live on government welfare also to eat through your welfare without contributing back, it’s actually a requirement in order to get the greencard, which you probably have no idea what it entails as I’m guessing you are a native born bleeding heart American liberal, otherwise you would have a more realistic view of the world.

This applies worldwide, unless you live in a communist country, where everyone is equally poor except for the elites in power.

Poor people should be enabled to have the tools to go and have better lives, but it’s up to them, what’s better for you might not be for them, so they can only choose. It’s called free will.

Not of the people, but of their own citizens. They owe nothing to people who are not their citizens, that’s why we have countries and not a world government, countries meddling in other countries internal politics leads to war.

News flash, poor people are not wanted in most countries of the world, everyone already has their own poor population to deal with.

They explicitly said that for h1b and l1 aos wouldn’t be affected as they are dual intent visas.