• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    tax money is spent

    Spending is entirely divorced from revenue. That’s how we run deficits.

    We’ve played the “cut taxes first, cut spending later” game since Carter, and I dare you to show me three consecutive years where the deficit actually contracted.

    is just taken from productive sectors

    Sectors that run high margins are defacto not productive. They are assigning large mark ups over the real cost of production.

    If you want to reduce inflation without hitting productivity, you need to extract taxes from these high margin businesses.

    Once shrinking your margin becomes a tax avoidance strategy, wages rise and prices fall.

    Targeted high margin taxation is a proven strategy for deflating prices. But this requires a level of education that goes beyond Econ 101.