• FlashMobOfOne
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    471 month ago

    We can, but it requires not having billionaires.

    • @[email protected]
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      291 month ago

      No more billionaires, but everyone can be a millionaire.

      The shortest path to equality is to greatly reduce taxes on the middle class and increase them on the wealthy.

      It puzzles me why leftist parties don’t all embrace lower taxes for the middle class.

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        It puzzles me why leftist parties don’t all embrace lower taxes for the middle class.

        They all do. My best guess as to why you’d say this is that you’re including Democrats.

        edit: Or, I could be a self-centered American that didn’t consider others. I’ll do better.

        At risk of a strawman…

        The shortest path to equality is to greatly reduce taxes on the middle class and increase them on the wealthy.

        That’s what’s best for equality and for economic growth. Does this mean Democrats are horribly incompetent? Perhaps it’s that equality and economic growth aren’t their goals.

        • @StupidBrotherInLaw
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          111 month ago

          It’s also possible they’re not from the US. There are dozens of us. Dozens!

          • @SirDerpy
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            71 month ago

            Fuck. I’m being a self-centered American, again. I’ll do better in the future. Thanks for the help.

        • @[email protected]
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          Considering the strains currently on the environment, finding a way forward that doesn’t require continual growth is likely a necessity for our long term survival (possibly short term too)

          • @SirDerpy
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            31 month ago

            But, muh’ capitalism!

            If it doesn’t work then we’ve killed all these socialists and communist for nothing.

            (Do I need a /s here? Is it obvious? Should be obvious.)

      • FlashMobOfOne
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        161 month ago

        It puzzles me why leftist parties don’t all embrace lower taxes for the middle class.

        Functionally, we don’t have one. The closest is the Green Party, but they’re so powerless that they may as well not exist.

        • classic
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          81 month ago

          Taxes have never been the issue. How they are used is. But that gets obfuscated so that the 99% shoot ourselves in the foot

          • @MotoAsh
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            21 month ago

            Taxes are DEFINITELY an issue when I pay more taxes than many billion dollar corporations.

            • classic
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              31 month ago

              Yes. You (and I, and most of us) are experiencing the end result of the American people being played with a deceiving narrative. “No taxes” is a con game to get us to this type of situation

    • @[email protected]
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      01 month ago

      You’re wrong. It doesn’t require no money. It requires that you have rejected the sucker for money.

        • @doingthestuff
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          01 month ago

          This is literally the future Jesus’ theoretical return presents but a lot of (not all) Christians aren’t on board.

          • FlashMobOfOne
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            11 month ago

            Yeah, people have believed in dumb shit like that since our species emerged from the primordial ooze.

          • FlashMobOfOne
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            21 month ago

            This world isn’t going to die.

            It’s just going to change.

            Our species might though.