• GoatSynagogue
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    9 days ago

    No, you shouldn’t be taxing wealth for all the reasons I’ve listed many times.

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      8 days ago

      We should absolutely be taxing wealth, if we don’t the economy will continue to become more and more in the hands of fewer and fewer.

      Wealth should be taxed, if you can take loans out against the value of your stocks, then that should be taxed.

      The only other workable solution is to make those types of loans illegal, then taxes on realised gains can actually be utilised.

      If not, we should absolutely be taxing wealth, otherwise the wealthiest will continue to not pay their fair share.

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        8 days ago

        “Not pay their fair share” when they each literally pay more than the bottom like 50% combined is an odd thing to say.

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          8 days ago

          No its not, thats mostly untrue, if they paid their fair share they wouldnt have such obscene wealth. Thats the only way to accumulate suh wealth, fraud.

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            7 days ago

            That’s a completely void of all logic conclusion you’ve come to.

            How do you define a “fair share”? Does someone being taxed on the value of all of their assets, including unrealised gains, every year compared to someone who pays only tax on their income, seem “fair”? How?

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              6 days ago

              When the richest don’t have any income, and therefore don’t pay any income tax, it’s not ever going to be fair. They got that rich through exploitation of public goods and services and refuse to pay back in to the system that made them. We must tax wealth as too many have ‘passive income’ in the form of unrealised gains on stocks which they never sell, they take loans out against their value and continuously buy more and more assets until there is nothing left.

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                5 days ago

                I’m sorry but s soon as you start using the “exploit” when talking about wealth, you give yourself up. Let me guess - capitalism is the problem, and socialism or communism is the answer?

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                  5 days ago

                  Give yourself up? As a person with a functioning brain or…?

                  Exploitation is the name of the game, or what do you prefer to refer to it as?

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                    4 days ago

                    So you think socialism or communism is the answer?