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Government Should Tax The Rich And Money

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In this video part 1, Sandel discuss the problem of libertarian view on government. One of the libertarian view of government is that the government should never be redistribution of tax, which mean tax the rich and give it to the poor. The reason is because libertarian believe in individual right and that a person should have the freedom to live a life that they wanted to live that if a person earn those money through hard work, then taking money away from them through simply having them to pay more tax is theft and imprisonment that means that simply having people to pay more tax, means that they are not funding the government voluntarily but by force and that we are not belong to our self but instead we are imprison to a society. This lead to a discussion of whether government should tax the rich and use those money to help the poor. In my opinion, I believe that government should tax the rich and use those money to help the poor. One reason is because the rich people is getting more from the government than people from the poor people. One such things is “Taxes on investment dividends and capital gains currently max out at about 24 percent when you add in a Medicare surtax that applies to some investment income. But the top income tax rate is 39.6 percent. So investment income is taxed at a much lower rate than regular income.”(Badger, 1). Therefore if the rich are getting more from the government than the poor, shouldn’t the rich be tax more, since they have more money

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