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My personal opinion is lowering costs needs to be given a far higher priority than redistributing wealth. If we could radically lower the costs of health care
by jimbokun 5y ago
My personal opinion is lowering costs needs to be given a far higher priority than redistributing wealth.
If we could radically lower the costs of health care and education in the US, for example, that would do far more for rising the standard of living than taxing and redistributing wealth.
- medvezhenok 5y agoAnd yet we should still tax (but possibly not redistribute) wealth. Wealth consolidation leads to power consolidation and I don't want de-facto monarchs/oligarchs in society running shadow operations (and especially (!) interfering with the free market in their favor). So my rationale to tax the rich has nothing to do with redistribution, and more to do with power decentralization.
- jimbokun 5y agoThis is the tragedy of Citizens United. It destroyed any hope of divorcing money from excessive political power.