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Billionaires' Low Taxes Are Becoming a Problem for the Economy
- ceejayoz 9mo agoThe Overton Window is really shifting if the WSJ is publishing stuff like this.
- NietzscheanNull 9mo agoFor everyone's sake, I hope you're correct. A quick scan of the article's comment section is enough to seriously curb one's optimism, though. I don't know what the demographic makeup of participants in WSJ's comment threads is, but the views expressed are surprisingly homogenous in both substance and tone. I like to challenge myself with a little "game" in which I attempt to guess the most commonly expressed opinions in WSJ comments based solely on the parent article title; it isn't a particularly difficult game.
- ceejayoz 9mo agoI used to work IT at a newspaper. 98% of the comments were made by a handful of super-posters, and that was before AI hit the world.
- TitaRusell 9mo agoThis is currently a problem in my country. The government needs money to buy tanks and guns. The poor don't have anything to tax, the rich cannot be taxed- so that leaves the folks in the middle. We are living in sad times. Historically when a country got itself into a life or death struggle all the rich people handed over their jewellery to fund the war. Now they fly to Dubai or Bern.
- hulitu 9mo ago> Billionaires' Low Taxes Are Becoming a Problem for the Economy A problem ? There's a dozen of them. Better take more money from the poor, there are millions of them. /s
- mitchbob 9mo agoNon-paywalled version: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/billionaires-low-taxes-are-becoming-a-problem-for-the-economy/ar-AA1WzNOA?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/billionaires-low-tax...