• Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      She only rich because her daddy was in a position of power and money to get her in the spotlight. She shouldn't be a billionaire and we should be taxing them out of existence. Every billionaire is a policy failure.

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      its easy if you tax.

      income > 1ml should be 95% tax rate or higher. period.

      tax every stock trade. remove religious exemption.

      there are ways, but the people in charge are reaping the most benefits from the broken system

      • TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world
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        That is really close to the tax rate we used to reduce inequality coming out of the Great Depression. In today’s dollars the threshold would lie in a few million, not one. And I believe it was 94% IIRC, but over 90. Of course nobody paid that in practice thanks to deductions, but it worked.

    • Behole@lemmy.ml
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      Agreed! Modern dragons on mountains of impossibly spendable gold!

      Wouldn’t it be cool if Tay flips the script and really become a “good” rich person! I would love to see that shift and that influence spread. Alas, likey just dreaming but shit, would be cool.