Because we don’t just blanket support taxes either. What kinda tax? A sales tax? An estate tax? Income tax?
Communists should avoid promoting taxation that would disproportionately burden the working class.
Edit: Seems like we all are on the same page, maybe I could have framed my original comment better. I realize the memes purpose was to highlight the issue of surplus value extraction which absolutely should be peoples #1 priority, I just get a bit tense when people get too excited for taxes. There’s a right and a wrong way to do it and beating libs over the head with “lol taxes are good actually” isn’t (in my experience) an effective slogan. Usually better to focus on progressive taxation. Things like capital gains tax. Or straight from the communist manifesto “A heavy progressive or graduated income tax”. Promoting sales tax? Bad actually!
of course not, but we also recognize that whatever taxes there are, surplus-value extraction is way more. the labor aristocracy, especially the professional-managerial labor aristocracy, often opposes taxation/programs that would benefit them. they “pay too much” in taxes, but they don’t even recognize their own surplus-value extraction.
I don’t disagree. I was only adding some additional information.
Even if we do implement taxes in ways that do not impact working class people as much, we are relying on a capitalist ruling class to pinky promise to not skim money off the top and spend it on the things it says.
oh i was mostly just ranting about the pmc lol. you’re totally right about the tax stuff and it seems like the only taxes we do get go directly to police and military
Because we don’t just blanket support taxes either. What kinda tax? A sales tax? An estate tax? Income tax?
Communists should avoid promoting taxation that would disproportionately burden the working class.
Edit: Seems like we all are on the same page, maybe I could have framed my original comment better. I realize the memes purpose was to highlight the issue of surplus value extraction which absolutely should be peoples #1 priority, I just get a bit tense when people get too excited for taxes. There’s a right and a wrong way to do it and beating libs over the head with “lol taxes are good actually” isn’t (in my experience) an effective slogan. Usually better to focus on progressive taxation. Things like capital gains tax. Or straight from the communist manifesto “A heavy progressive or graduated income tax”. Promoting sales tax? Bad actually!
of course not, but we also recognize that whatever taxes there are, surplus-value extraction is way more. the labor aristocracy, especially the professional-managerial labor aristocracy, often opposes taxation/programs that would benefit them. they “pay too much” in taxes, but they don’t even recognize their own surplus-value extraction.
I don’t disagree. I was only adding some additional information.
Even if we do implement taxes in ways that do not impact working class people as much, we are relying on a capitalist ruling class to pinky promise to not skim money off the top and spend it on the things it says.
oh i was mostly just ranting about the pmc lol. you’re totally right about the tax stuff and it seems like the only taxes we do get go directly to police and military
Non-communists should not say to communists what they have to do.
Good thing I’m a communist then.