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Taxation is the system where innocent people are forced to pay enormous amounts of money to the rich, powerful, corrupt. The whole basis for the Babylon system is taxation. Epstein and associates are able to thrive thanks to taxation. It has always been from the poor to the rich, never the other way around. Why do you think kings invented taxation in the first place?



If not for taxes, how would you fund prisons, police, the army, etc? Not to mention other things.


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> President Roosevelt rejected funding the war with taxes, and went instead with war bonds.

War bonds covered about half the costs.

Roosevelt was not shy about taxation, before or during the war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1935

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1937

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1942

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Income_Tax_Act_of_1...

"A 5% Victory tax on all individual incomes over $624 was created, with postwar credit."


He wasn't but in the decision between more taxes and war bonds, he chose bonds, against his advisors' wishes.

And the population proved that they are willing to make massive contributions to important causes, without having to be forced at gun-point with taxation.


I’ve well illustrated that he picked both.


I'm aware of that, so I don't understand what you're arguing about. The comment asked for an alternative to taxes for funding the army, and war bonds is the answer.

It's really amazing how successful war bonds have been in the 20th century. Before that, kings who wanted to wage war either taxed their population or borrowed money from people like Epstein for funding.


Then why are billionaires so anti-taxation? This is completely incoherent.


When was the last time you heard a bank owner or large industrialist being against the taxation of everyday people?

Even the famous/infamous billionaires never come out against income tax for normal people. At most they're against taxation of themselves.

When did you hear the owner of a bank or a large hedge fund or a major industry talk against income taxes which the poor pay?

The rich are 100% pro taxes. It funnels money to themselves from the population, and keeps competition down.


Trump's BBB brought more than $1 trillion in tax cuts to the wealthy.


That goes exactly in line with what I just wrote.




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