sanitation@lemmy.today to politics @lemmy.world · 9 days agoRaising taxes on the superrich is popular with voters. So why is it so hard to get done?thehill.comexternal-linkmessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1294arrow-down12
arrow-up1292arrow-down1external-linkRaising taxes on the superrich is popular with voters. So why is it so hard to get done?thehill.comsanitation@lemmy.today to politics @lemmy.world · 9 days agomessage-square59fedilink
minus-squareJiveTurkey@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·9 days agoThis basically sums it up. https://youtu.be/sYA-z0Y8WRQ?is=kw_NGc3gLO-d4Onl What the bottom 99% want is irrelevant. We don’t run this country or make its decisions. We are just cogs in a machine that exists to serve the rich and convince the poor that they’re in some magical land of freedom. None of us are free.
This basically sums it up. https://youtu.be/sYA-z0Y8WRQ?is=kw_NGc3gLO-d4Onl
What the bottom 99% want is irrelevant. We don’t run this country or make its decisions. We are just cogs in a machine that exists to serve the rich and convince the poor that they’re in some magical land of freedom. None of us are free.