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Tax the rich
420 upvotes, 10 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "Tax the rich"
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Anonymous 2w

Bro I keep having arguments with people who are like ‘oh we can’t tax them because most of their wealth is in the form of unrealized capital gains’. We can tax them in lots of different ways, just because they cheat the current system doesn’t mean it’s impossible to curtail their power and limit their needless levels of wealth

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Anonymous 2w

Texting the rich was a possible compromise from a generation ago. We are killing these people.

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Anonymous 2w

Leftists be like "look at how we trolled this guy with taxes a century ago! epic!" and don't mention that it's precisely what led to the middle class and lower classes being excessively taxed while the ultra wealthy get to skirt by with loopholes

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

Instead what they gather from it is that we need to try the exact same thing again and expect different results

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

Correct, we need to go further than taxation

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

This must go hard if you’re fucking stupid

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

I’m pretty sure 99% of leftists know that the first step here is fixing the loopholes brodie

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

like literally we could just require that you pay 50% of the tax you would pay had you realized the gains for gains above a certain threshold, and make that paid tax deductible against future realized gains.

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Anonymous replying to -> alphanerd 2w

For legal reasons I will not state my opinion on this take :)

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