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When people refer to “raise taxes” they usually talk about raising the rates, but you don't need to raise rates, if the GDP increase then the amount collected through taxes increases even if you don't change the rate.

And as such, it feels like labelling that “raise taxes” is disingenuous.



Exactly, another way to increase taxes is also by increasing gdp.

Indeed the normal Understanding is not only about increasing rates - look at Switzerland eg.


I'd you really wanted to fit this square peg into your artificial triangle hole, I'd argue that in practice this is closer to “lowering benefits” than to “raise taxes” since the purchasing power of the retired would decline compare to the population average.

But again, there's no basis to chose just your three items in particular.


This is not fitting anything into anywhere. This is how economists think about.


Economists working on pensions think about productivity a lot, and they don't bundle that in your “raise taxes” category.




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