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The US government burns money unproductively like California wild fire through a citrus field. And there are better ways to deal with our oligarchs than braids

The US government burns money unproductively like California wild fire through a citrus field. And there are better ways to deal with our oligarchs than braids dead proposals. Start breaking up their monopolies for one.

timeon 2y ago
> there are better ways to deal with our oligarchs Such as?
- sbsudbdjd 2y ago
  For starters break up their companies. We did it for standard oil, we did it for AT&T.
  - amrocha 2y ago
    Even if you took away all of Elons company he’s still the richest person in the world.
yadaeno 2y ago
The government will spend the money regardless. Does the money come from 1. inflation - a regressive tax that disproportionately takes from the poor 2. taxation as a % of wealth - takes from everyone equally The fact is the rich pay a WAY lower tax rate, we can spend the next 1000 years playing legal cat and mouse over how to tax these people but it doesn’t get us closer to option 2 unless the government gets aggressive about collecting tax.