Signs of the Times - and a question

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Originally Posted by d-ray657

I also do not see the harm or unfairness in taxing different types of income production. After all, we as a society provide the infrastructure and social framework that permits capital to be put to productive use. Why should not some of the value gleaned from that be returned to society? Because our perspective causes us to differently evaluate the utility of taxation at all levels of wealth creation, one can't say that an economic analysis that damns such taxation does not reflect a political perspective.

Regards,

D-Ray

So there is no science of economics? Only conjecture informed by bias or an agenda? I'd think the law of supply and demand had risen to the stature of the law of gravity, but maybe I'm wrong...?

Also, I think sentence #2 is really a stretch. To analogize, are you suggesting that just because a business might operate its delivery trucks or truck in raw materials using the Interstate, that society gets to lay claim via the tax code to a portion of that business's profits? Does that then mean that toll roads equate to double taxation? .

Why isn't returning to society the value of a quality product at a reasonable price sufficient?