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Originally posted by airspirit
High taxes are what you get for living in a socialist state.
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That's a complete misconception.
Socialists are *against* the high sales tax, because everyone pays the same. Thus the poor pay higher relatively to their wages, and the rich aren't bothered.
Socialists tend to lower 'injust' taxes (sales tax, gas taxes, etc) and rely more on prorgressive / proportional income taxes (the rich pay more, the poor pay less) so everyone can live. I'm in the "rich" part and i'm 100% for that system, and against the sales tax. Yeah, tag me socialist if you want, or 'commie' since maccarthism seems to make a come back lately, that would be good US style (i'm not communist at all btw)
France has been "socialist" between 1936 and 1939, and then between 1981 and 1982. That's all. Apart from those periods our country has been mostly right-wing.