Tax Plan

[devonin]

For the good of the society you live in. Socialism does not leave out the poor, making lives hell for the unfortunate. Sure it sucks getting more money taken when you earn more, but it's to give the money to people who need a chance to enter the workforce and strengthen the economy.

If you want to encourage people to actually put their full effort into achiveing and producing and bettering the world, punishing them for their success, more the more successful they are is the worst way to go about it.

Convince them that it is in their personal best interest to choose to be benevolent with their success and perhaps they will be. Telling me that it is my DUTY to give what I've earned and produced from my own abilities to someone who neither earned it, produced it, or intends to give me any kind of compensation whatsoever for it doesn't encourage me to work harder to produce more.

As much as I support social welfare programs and socialised institutions, I'm not blind to the sheer volume of abuse and outright theft in those systems is ALL OVER THE PLACE in Canada.

Welfare guarentees a minimum income to support your standard of living. As soon as you actually get gainful employment (Often for less money per year than welfare shells out) you are immidiately cut off from social support. As a result it is IN YOUR BEST INTEREST to do the absolute minimum amount of work to meet the requirements for welfare (Which includes that you demonstrate that you are at least looking for a job) and then to do your best to never ever get a job, never produce or earn ANYTHING because Welfare will give you a more profitable free ride.

Once the system starts to encourage and support incompetance, you're going to encourage competant people to stop trying.