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What is the purpose of taxation?

What is the most important goal of tax collection?

  • Collect revenue in such a way as to minimize wage disparity

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  • Collect Revenue from certain groups and not from others

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At its core, the most important goal of tax collection is to collect revenues necessary to protect or enrich those who are collecting the tax.

You can be sure that if someone wants taxes from you,
it's not to
maximize growth or
incentivize positive behaviors

but it may be to
redistribute (your) wealth, or
minimize (their) wage disparity

or, as they attempt to increase their own power, to collect revenue from certain groups and not from others.

Taxation, from the beginning of time, has needed to be severely regulated in order to avoid destruction, class warfare, and a life of slavery to others. Freedom and taxation are inversely related. The more closely related an individual's success or failure is to the will of the taxing body, the less freedom and personal satisfaction that individual experiences.
 
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Taxation, from the beginning of time, has needed to be severely regulated in order to avoid destruction, class warfare, and a life of slavery to others. Freedom and taxation are inversely related. The more closely related an individual's success or failure is to the will of the taxing body, the less freedom and personal satisfaction that individual experiences.

High-tax countries like Denmark, Norway, and Sweden regularly report some of the highest levels of personal satisfaction anywhere in the world. You can find slightly different rankings depending on which list you look at and how it's measured, but these countries seem to be in the top 10 pretty consistently. If there is an inverse relationship between taxation and happiness, it certainly doesn't show up in the surveys.

In Pictures: The World's 10 Happiest Countries - The World's 10 Happiest Countries - Forbes.com
World's Happiest Countries 2010: Forbes.com
The Happiest Countries in the World - Bruce Stokes - Business - The Atlantic
What’s the Happiest Country in the World? Not the United States - TIME NewsFeed
The World's Happiest Countries
 
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High-tax countries like Denmark, Norway, and Sweden regularly report some of the highest levels of personal satisfaction anywhere in the world. You can find slightly different rankings depending on which list you look at and how it's measured, but these countries seem to be in the top 10 pretty consistently. If there is an inverse relationship between taxation and happiness, it certainly doesn't show up in the surveys.

In Pictures: The World's 10 Happiest Countries - The World's 10 Happiest Countries - Forbes.com
World's Happiest Countries 2010: Forbes.com
The Happiest Countries in the World - Bruce Stokes - Business - The Atlantic
What’s the Happiest Country in the World? Not the United States - TIME NewsFeed
The World's Happiest Countries

Allow me to expand on that by saying that if someone's working 12 hour days with no hope of advancement just to survive, their personal satisfaction probably isn't real high, and they don't have very much freedom either, no matter what it says on paper somewhere.
 
Obviously you want a tax code that accomplishes multiple things; but when two goals conflict, one has to win. So what, at the end of the day, wins?

All of your choices are WRONG. The purpose of taxation is to provide minimum but adequate revenue for these three things ONLY.

1. Legitimate national defense (Does NOT include meddling abroad and empire building).
2. A legitimate justice system (Does NOT include abusive, overbearing or unconstitutional law enforcement).
3. Legitimate infrastructure such as roads, courthouses, military bases, etc. (Does NOT include the multitudes of things that belong in the private sector--welfare, education, wealth distribution or equalization, anti-poverty, health care, incentives, foreign aid, etc.).
 
Oliver Wendell Holmes famously said that taxes were the price we pay for a civilized society.

like they used to say in the old Marvel comics. "'nuff said"
 
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