Hello I'm gonna be a pedant. I technically don't believe in taxation because I'm a communist who wants the private sector seized or repressed to the point of political subordination. Needing to tax the rich would represent an unstable public sector and I wouldn't agree with a model that anticipates tax income as part of its spending. As in, if we're going to tax the rich in a socialist economy, we had better only be doing that to punish them for being rich and not because we need the money. Something like 87% of Cubans don't pay taxes and the ones who do own private businesses. The Cuban economy doesn't primarily rely upon taxation from its wealthiest to fund the state, which is what I advocate for.
Hello I'm gonna be a pedant. I technically don't believe in taxation because I'm a communist who wants the private sector seized or repressed to the point of political subordination. Needing to tax the rich would represent an unstable public sector and I wouldn't agree with a model that anticipates tax income as part of its spending. As in, if we're going to tax the rich in a socialist economy, we had better only be doing that to punish them for being rich and not because we need the money. Something like 87% of Cubans don't pay taxes and the ones who do own private businesses. The Cuban economy doesn't primarily rely upon taxation from its wealthiest to fund the state, which is what I advocate for.
Nerd! Also true, socialist states always have had low tax rates