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Because no legislature creates non-scaled fines that are high enough to be meaningfully felt by billionaires, since they would have to be utterly ruinous to us
by danaris 5y ago
Because no legislature creates non-scaled fines that are high enough to be meaningfully felt by billionaires, since they would have to be utterly ruinous to us mere mortals.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoWhy does everyone try and drag the discussion in the direction of a few dozen people who are a rounding error of a rounding error? Legislators seem happy to create fines that are meaningful if not excessive to everyone with a household income short of two well paid white collar professionals (who themselves are a small minority).
- danaris 5y agoBecause they are a very small number of people with a massively outsized amount of power. Allowing them to possess the amount of wealth they do is, by its very nature, unbalancing and damaging to the entire system.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoCitation please. That doesn't pass even a cursory sanity test. The people who are on top of the current system are the last people who want to unbalance, damage it or otherwise rock the boat.