4 ms·
People have been trying that for 100 years or so. So far it hasn’t worked.
by blhack 7y ago
People have been trying that for 100 years or so. So far it hasn’t worked.
- ianleeclark 7y ago> People have been trying that for 100 years or so. So far it hasn’t worked. We didn't even have the minimum wage 100 years ago in the United States. How are you going to deride people for not offering solutions, then, when they offer viable solutions, attempt to magically will-away history?
- blhack 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bill_of_Rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bill_of_Rights These ideas aren’t new. The idea of taxing the wealth even more is ALSO not new, and we already have tried it and had it fail. (France has tried this, as well as other European countries, with usually disastrous results).
- ianleeclark 7y agoAhh, okay. I guess we'll just let people die in the streets then.
- kortilla 7y agoPeople aren’t dying in the streets because Bezos has 100 billion. Pointing to rich people is just a distraction for people who can’t do math. Even if you could magically trap all of them in the US and wealth tax them away, it’s a meaningless drop in the bucket. Seize all of the money from everyone with 50 million+ in the US and you don’t even have enough to pay for Medicare for all.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- hanniabu 7y agoPoliticians have only been trying the bare minimum needed so they can continue enjoying benefits provided by lobbyists and keep the pesky annoying people (population) off their backs. It's hard to enjoy a life of luxury when you have people asking you to do your job and represent them.