- Capitalism and Alternatives -So workers shouldn't be concerned about taxes, eh?In Reply to: Workers and Taxes. posted by Red Deathy on February 22, 1999 at 11:49:27:
How anyone could still be pushing the line that workers shouldn't be concerned about taxes, I don't know. SV is a highly abstract concept - taxation is not. 1. We don't see it - unlike the money taken from our wages. 2. Many workers are consumers of SV and perhaps only a minority produce it. 3. As Marx pointed out, in any industrial society, workers would not receive their total product, an amount would have to be deducted for social services, expansion etc. We are against taxation because 40-50% of our wages are eaten up by it, and anyone who has been in the workforce for any length of time remembers when it was a lot less. In fact, there are many people alive who can remember when NO workers paid income tax and sales-tax was non-existent. Rather than arrogantly proclaiming "The Truth", to the great unwashed, listen to us instead! One might also add that the "workers shouldn't be concerned about taxes" line also nicely dovetails with the liberal left's apologies for state capitalism. A great number of working people are angry and searching for answers. A realistic politics would build on this sentiment rather than pour cold water on it.
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