About half the US population are indoctrinated to believe taxes = wealth redistribution = socialism/communism = evil, and those four-letter words send the average American into a frothing unhinged rant (I’ve seen/heard it enough)
Not sure why you’re getting down voted. The OP wasn’t explicitly about the US but Bernie Sanders got 13M votes in the 2016 primary and he is very clearly in support of taxing the wealthy. That sure is a lot of “insane” people isn’t it?
What is unreasonable is assuming that taxing wealthy individuals is, on its own, enough to solve all these other social problems. There just aren’t enough billionaires for that to work.
It’s about priorities. Money is information about how we prioritize distribution of material and labor. If we prioritize housing and feeding everyone, the money will go there. Right now we prioritize the supremacy of a small number of individuals and their “right” to own personal armies navies and air forces.
Who considers that insane besides a very, very small minority? I think (open to be corrected) most people think that is the correct course of action.
Edit: well shit, a lot more people found that insane than I expected. Guess I was wrong
You’d be amazed how many people under the boot of the 1% still lick the boot that holds them down.
Yea I was really not expecting that response. I didn’t realize that many people actually thought that way. TIL for sure
About half the US population are indoctrinated to believe taxes = wealth redistribution = socialism/communism = evil, and those four-letter words send the average American into a frothing unhinged rant (I’ve seen/heard it enough)
Anyone who’s ever whined about redistribution of wealth
Not sure why you’re getting down voted. The OP wasn’t explicitly about the US but Bernie Sanders got 13M votes in the 2016 primary and he is very clearly in support of taxing the wealthy. That sure is a lot of “insane” people isn’t it?
What is unreasonable is assuming that taxing wealthy individuals is, on its own, enough to solve all these other social problems. There just aren’t enough billionaires for that to work.
It’s about priorities. Money is information about how we prioritize distribution of material and labor. If we prioritize housing and feeding everyone, the money will go there. Right now we prioritize the supremacy of a small number of individuals and their “right” to own personal armies navies and air forces.
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