• @[email protected]
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    295 months 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.

    • @SirDerpy
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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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        115 months ago

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

        • @SirDerpy
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          75 months 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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          35 months 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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      165 months 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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        85 months 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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          25 months ago

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

          • classic
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            35 months 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