Comment by philipallstar
6 hours ago
This seems like such a poor understanding of reality. If you want to rank order people who contribute net taxes, you would put billionaires at the top, as they not only pay taxes themselves, but their businesses pay taxes, and their employees pay taxes, and their customers potentially pay taxes (VAT) as well.
The bottom of the list would be anyone who works for the state, as they are a massive net tax negative, followed by benefits recipients and pensioners, followed by low income workers, followed finally by the middle classes.
Are you sure you want that to be your guiding principle?
In what reality does a business owner get to claim their customers’ taxes as their own contribution?
Do you think employees and "customers" of the government don't pay tax?
Get rid of the employees and the taxes no longer get paid.
Get rid of the billionaire and the taxes still get paid.
Why do we credit those taxes to the billionaire rather than the employees?