• nonentity@sh.itjust.works
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    11 hours ago

    Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

    Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

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      9 hours ago

      Where I live, in Washington state, there isn’t an income tax however, finally they’re implementing one on people making over 1M/yr. There were people out protesting that definitely don’t make 1M/yr. It’s wild.

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      But where would the money come from to pay the tax from billionaires? They don’t have cash so they would need to get it from somewhere.

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        8 hours ago

        Why should you, I, or anyone care where they get the money from?

        A simple answer would be they could sell some of the assets they have which contribute to their classification as a billionaire. If they don’t have the collateral to pay the tax, they’d be able to prove it by no longer being classified as a billionaire, in which case the goal would be achieved with another billionaire being euthanised.