• febra@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Interesting choice. I wonder how they’ll come up with money then to pay for the people working government jobs, to maintain current infrastructure, and so on.

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      1 year ago

      That’s just a proper noun that some countries use for their parliament.

      There’s a reason you wrote ‘Congress’ with a capital-C but the article wrote ‘parliament’ with a lowercase-P - the headline is using ‘parliament’ as a common noun (unlike, for example, the capital-P ‘Parliament’ of the United Kingdom where it’s also used as the proper noun).

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    1 year ago

    I’m no libertarian, but I can’t be the only person that thinks this is great.
    Income tax is the tax them because they’re alive tax. I’ve always viewed it as a huge over reach

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      1 year ago

      VAT is the tax them because they are alive tax. Income tax is one of the fairer taxes out there (if the tax bands are setup well) because it taxes people based on their means to pay (mostly)