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Totally agree, it doesn't matter who earned the money, only that the government needs it for welfare
by muaytimbo 2y ago
Totally agree, it doesn't matter who earned the money, only that the government needs it for welfare
- treyd 2y agoOr to, you know, build roads and trains and stuff.
- throw10920 2y agoThe US government, both at the federal and state level, is extremely inefficient at building infrastructure, in terms of value per dollar spent. Proposing that we should continue to throw more money at infrastructure, before diagnosing and fixing the problems that are causing that inefficiency (at which point, sure, double the infra budget - as long as we're getting good value, the absolute amount can go up as far as I'm concerned), is straight-up malicious. The only people who make the argument to keep increasing the infrastructure budget before fixing the problems are those generically interested in throwing more money and power at the government, not those actually concerned about infrastructure (who will seek to fix the problem first).
- amrocha 2y agoWhat private company in the US is building infrastructure more efficiently than the government?
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- 00_hum 2y agook let me know when the us government can build and manage roads and railways and i will consider it!
- coffeecloud 2y agoWe all earned the money. Nobody makes 100M in a vacuum. That sort of profit only comes from taking full advantage of a country's infrastructure, its educated population, its safety from invasion. We all provide the society that allows someone to amass that much wealth, and we all deserve a piece of the pay out.
- OCASMv2 2y agoAll those people get paid for their products and services. They're not entitled to steal from others no matter how rich those others are.
- coffeecloud 2y agoIt’s simply pay for use. The more someone uses the system, the more they pay back into it. Anyone with more than 100M in assets has used the system a shit ton and owes a lot back into it.
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- throw10920 2y agoThis is completely, totally, objectively false. > It’s simply pay for use. This is false. Toll roads are "pay for use". Capital gains tax is, objectively, not "pay for use". > Anyone with more than 100M in assets has used the system a shit ton There's zero evidence that supports a strong correlation between how many assets someone has and how much value they've obtained from government services. This is just entirely fabricated. > and owes a lot back into it ...which they've already actually paid through taxes on profits. This bundle of falsehoods is just a thin facade around the emotional plea that "someone having more money than me is bad, and I should get some of it".
- coffeecloud 2y ago"Your opinions are completely, totally, objectively false. Here are 3 of my opinions and unsubstantiated conjectures that prove so."