• Random Dent@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    I mean you could even take the bottom number and leave them with the top number and they could still live in unimaginable luxury forever. Or just take the lot because fuck em lol.

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    2 years ago

    Wealth taxes actually work, that’s why the rich attack them so vehemently.

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    2 years ago

    Do billionaires actually have billions in real money sitting around? I’ve always thought the billions were in stocks and couldn’t be taxed until they cashed it out and they could technically lose everything if the stock price falls. That’s really fucked up if true

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    2 years ago

    Regardless of how hard it’s to do this, you’ll get what out of this… 15B? That’s nothing… the government spends that in less than a day. Maybe cut government spending in half first. None of this is sustainable.

    https://www.usdebtclock.org/

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        2 years ago

        You do understand that the government budget is 4 trillion per year, right? Do the math! What’s wrong with you?

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            2 years ago

            Do the total and calculate it all and show me whether it’s gonna last you a few days.

            You plebs can’t do elementary school math and think you should talk policy. What a joke.

  • Stumblinbear@pawb.social
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    2 years ago

    Wealth taxes are stupid. That said, nobody needs multiple hundreds of billions of dollars.

    The solution is to have regulations and laws in place that prevent them getting this large in the first place. The fact that Amazon and Google own 90% of the internet is absolutely fucked.

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      2 years ago

      I agree, no one should be able to hold such an obscene amount of wealth. Right now they do, though. How do you propose this be remedied?