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> In fact, the progressive taxation alone incentivizes everyone to _not_ earn more than about 100000 USD a year […]

100k is a lot. Only people who've seriously lost perspective (or living in areas that have collectively lost perspective and have huge local inflation) think it's not enough. I'm quite happy to pay taxes to support social services. The only thing better would be to equalise incomes so that it wouldn't be necessary…



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