Direct taxes in U.S. were first used when a war needed funding

schools have gender studies

My argument wasn't about best tax systems

taxes pay for gender studies 😛

Uhh thats not how tax brackets work Grenade

I don't care if colleges have gender studies.

tell me how that is not a punishment for making more money?

I care if colleges repress ideas.

its like gender studies was designed specifically to be a wasteful gouvernment expenditure

@Grenade123 nobody supports that system, when people talk brackets they mean progressive tax bracket

My argument was about so called 'trickle down economics' or economics, as anyone else calls them

Tax brackets work like this. Say 5 10 15% fo simplicity

@Grenade123 income in that bracket gets taxed at that rate

It is Julz

Gender studies is a 0 job opportunity major,

Meaning those people will become poor/useless, and thus want extra benefits from the state (so another voter for welfare)

5% Up to 5000, 10% from 5000 to 10000 and the 15% on anything over 10000

Philosophy studies is a 0 job opportunity major,

Meaning those people will become poor/useless, and thus want extra benefits from the state (so another voter for welfare)

@RyeNorth I agree that supply side economics is important

This is a bad argument.

Philosophy shouldn't be a university degree either

@Dennafen true, speeches and books are lucrative now

not actual numbers just a conceptual simulation

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Yes it should.

So should gender studies.

Pondering reality doesn't exactly have its uses that a free book on the internet can't provide

It shouldn't be a required class for a major maybe.

@ExceptionalFeather yes, thank you. except what happens when you get small raise that takes you just into the next bracket?

It should be allowed in school, but not be funded a penny

Who makes books though 🤔

That's an argument against school in general @Dr.Wol

You get taxed at the higher percetage for the amount you make IN the higher bracket

@Grenade123 then the portion of the raise that goes in the bracket gets taxed a little more

nah, school should be there to teach you the basics, and later on a trade of choice in something thats valuable to society

Gender studies isn't valuable to society

You don't suddenly get taxed the higher percetage on the full amount

@Grenade123 I think there should be discussion on where and how much the brackets are but I don't believe in getting rid of them

You don't need a school to teach you anything really, it's for free on the internet.

School are there to teach how to think, not what to think.

exactly, but since children make poor decisions, in order to prevent a generation of stupids (on paper, cuz people are stupid in general)
You force them the basics by mandatory schooling

The problem with gender studies, and other such classes is that they're indoctrinating people into an ideology not the thrust of the ideas.

@Grenade123 there is also the issue of using brackets in determining welfare, which could be looked at