Speaking of taxes is talking about distributive justice. Justice with capital letters. The one that respects the rights of the people, the one that ensures a dignified life for all.
There is justice when citizens enjoy their rights.
From the right to decent housing to education, health, social protection ... But to make it possible you have to pay taxes and redistribute the proceeds attending needs and respecting rights.
You have to pay taxes because they are the main means of the State to obtain income. Not paying taxes weakens the State and prevents it from fulfilling its inescapable obligation to serve citizens.
The enemies of taxes (rich or with a vocation to be) claim that taxes are a burden, harmful, and must be reduced. False. Paying taxes is helping the country work. But there is to organize the system of taxes, taxation, which has to be fair, progressive and sufficient where everyone pays according to their economic capacity.
You have to pay taxes because people are social beings. We need each other and depend on each other.
We are interdependent and we organize ourselves to help each other. The State is the way to organize the people of an area or territory to ensure that interdependence that requires the payment of taxes.
Without taxes, there is no justice or dignified life.
Taxes are the cost of living in society, of benefiting from living in society.
Tax myths
And at that point it is convenient to dismantle some tax fallacies. Like the need to cut social budgets because there is no money because of the crisis. False. There is money, but it is very disappointing and it benefits those who accumulate more and have to pay less taxes. That's why little is raised.
According to GESTHA, trade union of technicians of the Treasury, the rich Spaniards hide about 140,000 million euros in tax havens . Millions that do not pay taxes; Imagine if they paid for them.
There is money, but a large part is in the shadow economy. According to the report of GESTHA, Submerged economy adds and continues , it increased in the crisis 60,000 million euros to reach 24.6% of GDP.
They are more than 250,000 million euros of hidden money. That Spanish submerged economy doubles the European average, because in the Europe of the 15 the submerged economy is 12% of GDP.
The rich Spaniards hide about 140,000 million euros in tax havens, according to GESTHA
Submerged economy is that of companies that do not officially exist, do not appear in any official register and do not pay taxes. They submerge precisely so as not to pay taxes or social contributions.
Another false tax myth is that lowering taxes favors the economy. The truth and documented is that lowering taxes (almost always to the rich, of course) favors only the rich.
And even more false is that lowering taxes moves the rich to create jobs with the money they save by lowering taxes. No. The money saved by the rich for not paying taxes is used to speculate with varied and twisted financial products in the global casino that the financial sector has become.
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