I’m sure this is going to be a level headed rational discussion about taxes by all the knowledgeable skilled tax professionals in lemmy.
I glossed over the tax implications and went straight to the indoctrination of the masses into the ideals of capitalism
I mean on one hand I agree with you. But on the other I don’t think you need to be a “tax professional” to have a valid opinion on taxes.
Like I’m sure you express opinions you are not a leafing expert on right?
Actually I try to go out of my way to not have opinions on complicated technical subjects I know nothing about. Tend to defer to whatever the experts’ consensus is. It’s shocking to me how few people do that.
Edit - lol at the downvotes, thanks for proving my point.
One of the first things to do with complex and nuanced topics is to express them in comics.
I’m surprised you think it’s the tax deductions that are the issue here.
Be warned to anyone who might go check this out.
This is a #VERY NSFW comic.
And a fantastic one at that
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Everyone is interpeting the comic wrong, shitty title most likely.
Lions = billionaires
Gazelle = workers
Why do the workers need education? To be taught to accept their place in the food chain. It’s about propaganda, not taxes.
Not even fair there tho, in nature predators maintain a stable environment by regulating prey populations to sustainable sizes.
An equivalent under capitalism would be stronger anti-monopoly law and laws imposing heavy regulation on businesses above a given size within their respective markets.
A big hunter that keeps grazers at a size that doesn’t allow them to begin just eating everything and starving everyone else out while depleting the resource well for all.
This, they only tell you “Oh Gates dropped out and he became the richest man!”
In order to instill you with the idea that the rich are great men who can do the impossible and get good results…
They keep quiet that he dropped out of Harvard and his Mother gave him a contract because she owned IBM.
I like your interpretation but the title is literally the title the artist gave it. I’m not sure who is right, the artist or the observer.
Couldn’t it be that charity donations are tax deductible?
What is this Libertarian bullshit doing here?
ah yes, refuse to fund the schools with taxes and let the religious institutions do it. This is why Americans are generally thought of as ‘well-educated’ on the world stage.
…/s
the lions here aren’t the government they’re corporations
its funny how it works both ways. I could easily see this comic on an right-wing facebook page in the USA in favor of ‘school vouchers’
