MuskyMelon@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year agoThe Largest Upward Transfer of Wealth in American Historywww.theatlantic.comexternal-linkmessage-square177fedilinkarrow-up1752arrow-down16
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minus-squarecapital_sniff@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down7·1 year agoWe get banned for talking about increasing taxes on the wealthy through like progressive tax policy?
minus-squareTheShadow277@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·1 year agoAsking the rich to be less rich doesn’t seem to be working so well to me.
minus-squareSoftestSapphic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·1 year agoSo how do we increase taxes on them when they control all our politicians?
minus-squareSabinStargem@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoNo politicians, no problem. …I can’t use a /s for this. Because, honestly, we might have a shooting war within a decade. I think most of our politicians don’t understand why the social contract was a thing.
minus-squareblakenong@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoSweet summer child, that won’t happen. It’s far more likely that we just kill them all before those things get voted in.
We get banned for talking about increasing taxes on the wealthy through like progressive tax policy?
Asking the rich to be less rich doesn’t seem to be working so well to me.
So how do we increase taxes on them when they control all our politicians?
No politicians, no problem.
…I can’t use a /s for this. Because, honestly, we might have a shooting war within a decade. I think most of our politicians don’t understand why the social contract was a thing.
Sweet summer child, that won’t happen. It’s far more likely that we just kill them all before those things get voted in.