{"id":52266,"date":"2024-05-19T01:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T05:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=52266"},"modified":"2024-05-18T09:38:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T13:38:39","slug":"qotd-taxation-and-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/05\/19\/qotd-taxation-and-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Taxation and theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding: 0px 0px 10px 25px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>High-income earners pay a higher rate of tax than people on low incomes. So why is it unfair, as Kim Beazley argues, that high-income earners receive a larger tax cut?<\/p>\n<p>An analogy: your house and your neighbour&#8217;s house are both burgled. You lose a television. He loses a DVD player, microwave, his collection of Chomsky memorabilia (it&#8217;s an inner-city house), and a unique framed Leunig depicting Mr Curly&#8217;s pedophilia arrest. Would it be <em>unfair<\/em> if police were to return all of this fellow&#8217;s belongings, and you were only to get back your 24-inch Sony?<\/p>\n<p>Tim Blair, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadtosurfdom.com\/archives\/2005\/05\/simplistic_righ.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Simplistic right-wing greed justification attempted&#8221;, <em>Road to Surfdom<\/em><\/a>, 2005-05-12.<\/p>\n<p>[H\/T to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samizdata.net\/blog\/archives\/007543.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Samizdata<\/a>, both for the link and for their title on the post, which I&#8217;ve purloined.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-income earners pay a higher rate of tax than people on low incomes. So why is it unfair, as Kim Beazley argues, that high-income earners receive a larger tax cut? An analogy: your house and your neighbour&#8217;s house are both burgled. You lose a television. He loses a DVD player, microwave, his collection of Chomsky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,41],"tags":[343,98,118],"class_list":["post-52266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-quotations","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-police","tag-taxes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-dB0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89079,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52266\/revisions\/89079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}