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Strongly disagree. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Moreover, you are actually proving my point. Sure, it starts out as a tax on the top 0.1% mak

Strongly disagree. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Moreover, you are actually proving my point. Sure, it starts out as a tax on the top 0.1% making over 32M. What happens with inflation, when 32M has the same value as 1M today? Who is to say the 0.1% might not become 1%, then 10%, then 100%? To ignore these possibilities is to be naïve. We have very recent historical PROOF of the fact that these goalposts get moved, in the income tax.

rektide 5y ago
Bernies' Extreme Wealth Tax says a couple with worth of $32m would taxed ~$5000 a year. That sounds like such a pittance. Worlds smallest fiddle playing for your slipperly slope government-is-evil shitholeness, this aspersion that this would be some terrible plight. It's a toxic straw man you've propped up. I don't see your fearmongering as an entertainable idea: it is meant to intimidate & bully, and it's so far, so very very many magntitudes, outside the intent & nature of what's really being discussed. We have to start doing something. The current situation is catastrophic. The 0.1% need to contribute, needs to chip in to the society they benefit from having around & working/selling-to, and in large part this super-strata of society is so busy re-investing their capital that they rarely have to directly help our society, fund our government; they face less tax burden than most. A wealth tax is a basic, simple, easy idea to make the well-monied investor class contribute something to society. Ultimately government has to be able to respond & adapt. Once a law stops fitting it's purpose it needs to be amended, fixed, rewritten. To simply say we should admit defeat & give up government is defeatism that gets us nowhere. We need progress. We need progressivism. We need to be able to enact laws easier, to monitor their impact, to adjust them as we go. Legislating in my lifetime has been roadblocked by the most shrill, hostile, negative, condescending anti-government forces imaginable. At some point we need some space & time when we decide we are going to allow governing, when we will let ourselves make & adapt & improve laws. That has not happened in modernity, and that, that is the poison eating us away, and that is why disbelief is such a reigning popular toxin. When we say government degrades, saying things get worse, we're mistaking the symptom of this popular toxic anti-governance roadblocking for a cause; it's not government's fault it's been unable to make progress, to govern: it's been by design, by specific factions within America.
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rektide 5y ago

Bernies' Extreme Wealth Tax says a couple with worth of $32m would taxed ~$5000 a year. That sounds like such a pittance. Worlds smallest fiddle playing for your slipperly slope government-is-evil shitholeness, this aspersion that this would be some terrible plight. It's a toxic straw man you've propped up. I don't see your fearmongering as an entertainable idea: it is meant to intimidate & bully, and it's so far, so very very many magntitudes, outside the intent & nature of what's really being discussed. We have to start doing something. The current situation is catastrophic. The 0.1% need to contribute, needs to chip in to the society they benefit from having around & working/selling-to, and in large part this super-strata of society is so busy re-investing their capital that they rarely have to directly help our society, fund our government; they face less tax burden than most. A wealth tax is a basic, simple, easy idea to make the well-monied investor class contribute something to society. Ultimately government has to be able to respond & adapt. Once a law stops fitting it's purpose it needs to be amended, fixed, rewritten. To simply say we should admit defeat & give up government is defeatism that gets us nowhere. We need progress. We need progressivism. We need to be able to enact laws easier, to monitor their impact, to adjust them as we go. Legislating in my lifetime has been roadblocked by the most shrill, hostile, negative, condescending anti-government forces imaginable. At some point we need some space & time when we decide we are going to allow governing, when we will let ourselves make & adapt & improve laws. That has not happened in modernity, and that, that is the poison eating us away, and that is why disbelief is such a reigning popular toxin. When we say government degrades, saying things get worse, we're mistaking the symptom of this popular toxic anti-governance roadblocking for a cause; it's not government's fault it's been unable to make progress, to govern: it's been by design, by specific factions within America.

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