Facts are facts
Corporate tax is bad, land tax is better. Workers get the worst deal from inefficient (bad) taxes.
Ahem.
The wicked problems, and focus of ideological debates in most Western liberal democracies like Australia boils down to persuasion around the trade-offs in efficiency vs equity. There are pros and cons to each of those, independently of one another, let alone in trade-off. Though, political debates are frequently black and white (or 'blue and green', if you're a sucker for over-ellaborations of what could have otherwise been a list of cognitive distortions. Not that being of a sucker for that is a bad thing. Persuasive devices of different kinds are used to persuading different audiences. Though, the audience here has evolved over several purges and I reckon the way it will fortuitiously head is towards intense information density, and standardisation (other than the more predictable trends that have been already identified and/or cultivated by others).
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