Apparently poor people starving while rich people have 2 yachts is less morally wrong than 👻Taxing the Rich👻
Read the article. They’re in favour of closing loop holes and ensuring tax is progressive all the way to the top end (so taxing the mega rich properly) but point out the inconvenient (and true) truths that it won’t raise enough money to fix everything, and it concentrates political power in an even smaller number of people (those who are paying for everything) and encourages a culture of dependency in everyone else.
If your title is “Don’t go after the rich”, I’m not reading your fucking article.
concentrates political power in an even smaller number of people (those who are paying for everything
Somehow rich people paying taxes concentrates power? They already have all the power via lobbying and citizen’s united. How the fuck would taxes give them power?
Literally capital is power. The more capital they hoard the more powerful they are. Taxes redistribute capital.
The solution to lobbying and citizens united isn’t tax changes - it’s transparency in political funding and the electorate giving a fuck. And, pretty obviously, if most of a governments tax income came from a few hundred individuals they’d have enormous power, even if you did fix the lobbying/citizens united problem- they could just leave and crash your income overnight
Yes… The solution to lobbying and citizen’s united is to get rid of them… I was merely saying that was the locus of their power and that taking their money via civic means doesn’t somehow give them power. Also, the flight of wealthy people narrative never pans out when tested.
if most of a governments tax income came from a few hundred individuals they’d have enormous power
But, currently, those people already have enormous power … and we’re not even getting any money out of the deal.
it won’t raise enough money to fix everything,
Who says that? Only one way to truly find out!
it concentrates political power in an even smaller number of people (those who are paying for everything
They already kidnap and fuck children, they kidnap other heads of State to disteact from that, they create a Gestapo…
Like how should that it even get worse?!
Find a political party you like, join it, start getting better people elected. Find an activist group (real, not online), wrestle with the compromises necessary to actually get anything done. Remember - a small group of dedicated people is the only thing that ever changes the world
So, the same tired, weak arguments the rich have used to avoid paying for their fair share for decades?
Hey, show some sympathy! Poor Arthur Laffer’s arse has bled non stop since he pulled that curve out of it.
“The Robin Hood State” ffs, we’re just asking for you to pay taxes, you dramatic, greedy shitstains.
Centre- anything is right wing by default in my mind these days.
The old joke, one side wants peace, understanding, and a better world for their children. The other main side wants to kill all of the first side. The center says, let’s compromise and only kill half.
Can’t believe I used to read their shit all the time.
Same. It’s literal blatant propaganda for the 1% and younger me was taught that it’s the highest quality news magazine so I read it weekly. So glad I’m past that.
Oh, this wasn’t a sarcastic headline.
