Billionaires have seen their wealth expand by 109 percent over the past decade as their fortunes increase $2.7bn a day.
  • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    381·
    1 year ago

    Let’s set aside all moral debates about freedom, punishing prosperity, blah blah blah.

    There is one very simple and practical reason to tax the rich:

    because that’s where all the money is

    • Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      Conversely there is one simple reason why politicians who hope to get re-elected will never tax the rich.

      Because that is where all the money is

      Get the special interests and money out of politics and we may have a chance of taxing them.

        • Xavienth@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          The people who don’t have any money can’t vote for anybody who is good about this because that’s how it’s designed. It’s not our fucking fault.

          I mean it is; that we haven’t taken power directly.