Showing posts with label redistribution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label redistribution. Show all posts

Monday, April 01, 2024

It's Time to End non existing Squatter's Rights

Recommendable, but a long article! Provides some useful background on the subject! 

If those violations of individual property rights based on some redistributive ideology are tolerated or worse encouraged, this is very dangerous! This can lead to chaos and anarchy!

"... an immigrant TikToker with 500,000 followers posted a video encouraging other migrants to squat in private residences in the United States. The immigrant, Leonel Moreno, explained to potential squatters that under US law, “if a house is not inhabited, we can seize it.” ...
Historically, there have been some arguably reasonable justifications for the practice, such as in times past when real estate records were far less precise and well preserved. In modern times, however, squatter's rights have little purpose beyond redistributing property to favored interest groups. Moreover, squatter's rights in modern settings bear less and less resemblance to the squatter's rights of history. ..."

It's Time to End Squatter's Rights | Mises Institute

Thursday, August 05, 2021

Measuring Progressivity in Canada’s Tax System

The Robin Hood system in Canada: Take it from the rich, to give it to the poor and to more and more highly compensated government employees!

Unfortunately, the Fraser Institute omitted to include how much money the bottom 20% receive from government in form of welfare payments etc.

"... high-income families already pay a disproportionately large share of all Canadian taxes. Indeed, the evidence shows that the top 20 percent of income-earning families pay nearly two-thirds (63.2 percent) of the country’s personal income taxes and more than half (54.7 percent) of total taxes. ...
In contrast, the bottom 20 percent of income-earning families are estimated to pay only 1.0 percent of all federal and provincial personal income taxes and 2.3 percent of total taxes in Canada.  ..."

Measuring Progressivity in Canada’s Tax System | Fraser Institute