(03-27-2021, 01:06 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(03-27-2021, 09:25 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Taxes as social engineering, the reason we're in this mess in the first place. Stupid people think that they can get just the right amount of command and control in the economy to create Utopia, and all they do is [BLEEP] things up worse.

That's unstable thinking.
A little bit of encouragement is not the same as commanding.
Trying to improve society is not the same as having delusions of utopia.

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(03-27-2021, 09:32 AM)Sneakers Wrote: Both commendable goals, but why are you seeking to link the two completely unrelated forms of taxation?

So the amount of revenue the government collects and the amount of debt it creates remains about the same. So that the policy tweak only has microeconomic effects, not macroeconomic.