Tax is the price the elite pay to maintain their privilege

• Marty G
• 14 years ago
• Categories: capitalism, class war, public services, tax

John Roughan asks:

“Nearly half of all personal tax revenue is contributed by just 10 per cent of us. Is this socially healthy?”

To which I reply:

“That 10% get 34% of the country’s income and own 52% of the country’s wealth, compared to the 50% who get 16% of the country’s income and own just 3% of the county’s wealth. Is this socially healthy?”

We live in a horrifically unequal society. Taxation to pay for distributive public services goes a small way to relieving that inequity. It’s the price the elite pay to maintain capitalism, a socio-economic system that lets them control the lion’s share of the wealth.