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New plan would tax the rich, eliminate taxes for half of U.S. workforce
- tim-tday 7mo agoThe wealthy and powerful will never vote to disenfranchise themselves. This will go exactly nowhere. Wealth and power protect themselves and always will.
- CamperBob2 7mo agoYes, let's create a system where only a few actually have skin in the game. I'm sure that will work swimmingly. Meanwhile, a large double-digit percentage of workers already pays no US income tax.
- seanmcdirmid 7mo agoThey pay use and payroll taxes. Actually, just moving more of the tax burden over to graduated income and wealth taxes would go a long way to equality. Just taking health insurance into the public system would help. There are lots of easy things we can do, millionaire taxation is kind of just a distraction/strawman.