Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "Tax Is How We Defend Ourselves" video.

  1. Anyone who thinks you're a communist knows less about communism than they think they do. Moreover, they haven't paid attention to what you have said over and over about yourself being a capitalist. In short, you believe that capitalism is necessary, but not sufficient of itself to ensure fair, efficient, and adequate distribution of the resources needed for survival by all. Why? Because capitalism by itself seeks to harness individual human desires, without acknowledging the necessity of disciplining and regulating them to protect the welfare of all humanity. It is not about destroying capitalism, it's about controlling it's downsides that derive from human shortcomings like greed, short-sightedness, and other follies. Taxation is a necessary tool for doing that, as economic history shows us. Taxation became necessary to protect capitalism itself. And there's there is every justification to use it to protect societies from capitalism when it's overgrowth results in harming them. The justification is obvious, but it is how we use taxation that is the conflict. And governments, like markets, are comprised by people who are not perfect or efficient out of the gate. Everything is an ongoing experiment that risks failure. And capitalism is failing the societies it is meant to serve by ineffectively distributing the resources needed for its survival. Fair, targeted, and effective taxation is the only tool to fix that. The status quo isn't working.
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