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Same as it ever was. Who needs to pay more taxes? Those people over there.
by habeebtc 5y ago
Same as it ever was.
Who needs to pay more taxes? Those people over there.
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- adam12 5y agoWho needs to pay more taxes? Those people who aren't paying their fair share. Especially those who are using their wealth / power to get out of paying taxes.
- ericd 5y agoPaper value is not the same as realized value, and doesn’t make sense to be included as part of someone’s “fair share”. Especially true when assets are inflated to all time highs. People are willing to buy tiny fractions of Amazon stock at its current valuation, no one is offering to buy all or even most of it at that valuation.
- bradlys 5y agoShort of being in a recession - assets are almost always at all time highs dude.
- ericd 5y agoYes, I'm aware that all-time high prices are pretty normal, like anyone who's spent more than a couple of years investing. The current highs aren't just in nominal price terms, though, but also in a lot of normalized metrics, and that's not so normal.
- standardUser 5y agoTaxing the people who are accumulating all of the money is the only thing that makes sense. Writing it off as a folksy trope does not change that fact.