Anonymous #1 21w

yeah the income tax rate for rich people was above 70% back in the 50s and 60s arguably when America was at it’s greatest

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Anonymous #1 21w

Our leaders sobered up and realized it’s impossible to have a functioning nation without everyone pitching in. Thanks to Reagan we got corpos in politics squeezing the country dry of capital and locking it away in shares and debt that we’ll never see

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Anonymous OP 21w

any income tax is unconstitutional

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Anonymous #1 21w

yeah if your constitution is the articles of confederation 🤣🤣🤣

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Anonymous #1 21w

Literally the 16th amendment

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Anonymous #3 21w

I mean we can absolutely do that too. But that’s stuff like more maternity and paternity leave, free healthcare, better wages, more affordable childcare and housing. It’s stuff that is broadly opposed by the Republican Party.

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Anonymous OP 21w

Give government ability to tax and print money and they will consistently keep doing it more and more until total collapse. It’s happened consistently in history and the founding fathers deeped it but we the people are dumb and fell for the 16th amendment then we allowed for the creation of the federal reserve which was even worse

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Anonymous #3 21w

Leftists try to do that but then the right cries when they advocate for it

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Anonymous #1 21w

man you must be 13 years old. have fun with your $9 toll roads and contracted firefighters and $130k hospital bills for if god forbid you decide to bring a most unfortunate soul into this world.

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Anonymous OP 21w

Just so uneducated and so wrong

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Anonymous #1 21w

Without taxes you don’t have governments. How do you think a government exists without taxes? Hell, for that matter, how do you think MONEY exists. Do you wanna go back to using raw gold? Cowrie shell? Wampum? Cacao beans?

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Anonymous #2 21w

It’s not no tax it’s no income tax

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Anonymous #3 21w

People would have kids if they could afford houses, the hospital bills to birth a child, maternity and paternity leave for new parents to take care of their kids, daycare, community activities Have you ever been to scandanavia? I studied abroad in Iceland and got to meet the locals, even learned some of the language. They get 12 months of parental leave that let them bond with their children, extended families, and community as a whole. Other countries in Scandinavia have that too

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Anonymous #1 21w

What, you want sales taxes and tariffs? The thing that disproportionately negatively impacts poor people?

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Anonymous #1 21w

Okay, I’d be okay with replacing income tax with a VAT, and strict corporate tax and wealth tax.

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Anonymous #1 21w

If a multibillionaire buys a $400 million yacht, he can afford to pay $200 million dollars in taxes on it that’s fucking chump change for a massive yacht

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Anonymous #2 21w

And income tax doesn’t? And federal reserve money printing doesn’t? Every tax disproportionately impacts poor people

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Anonymous #2 21w

lmfao I live in Arkansas where there’s a 10% combined tax on everything, I pay the same in sales tax rate as the Waltons the richest family on earth

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Anonymous #1 21w

Progressive and regressive taxes is a pretty basic economic concept.

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Anonymous OP 21w

The issue with wealth tax it’s just strictly implausible bc in order to have wealth tax you have to have big government and when you have big government the money ends up controlling it which is how you end up with income tax and the federal reserve and the slow rotting of the economy.

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Anonymous #1 21w

We aren’t 1700s self-sufficient homesteaders bruh

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Anonymous #2 21w

in theory yes but it never works in practice bc of how government operates

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