Is there any country where taxes work in taking some money from the rich to distribute them to the poor?

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Answer 1

Here's the thing: a country needs to sufficiently create wealth to have rich people to tax in the first place.

Answer 2

Um...America, Canada, European countries, heck...most countries do this (Norway might be the most severe with a top tax bracket of about 85%)

The rich pay most of the tax burden and that money goes to welfare, public transportation, education, social services, etc. Outside of national security, the majority of tax dollars serve the poor more than the rich as the rich use few social services.

Answer 3

A simple answer is the U.S. The top 50% of wage-earners pay close to 97% of taxes. The U.S. federal income tax is a progressive tax whereby your tax rate (the percentage of tax you have to pay) goes up as your income increases.

Tax money is re-distributed to the poor in the form of welfare, medicare, WIC, etc. The U.S. welfare system is pretty close to pure wealth re-distribution - take from the "rich" and give it to the poor.

Answer 4

the u.s. is a good example

although i would think that if a country has a relatively higher tax rate, more and more of that country's elites would leave


think florida

Answer 5

Ummmmm not that I know of!!!