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The thing that annoys me the most is the amount of money it takes to protect their wealth.
Even if you factor out thngs like the police and the army, the money paid for private guards and security alone is in the hundreds of millions. Add in the accountants, lawyers, bankers, and associated finance gurus and you've got enough to make college free for everyone on Earth.
That about sums it up. They'll spend a million to prevent giving a thousand to the poor.
Sure, but it's also proven to be more cost effective to just manipulate people and shift their costs. Some moron was arguing against California's billionaire wealth tax bill because billionaires might have "liquidity problems" lmfao.
And that goes for all of these fucking leeches: The beloved pop star. The legendary athlete. The really nice lady who gave away ten billion. The soft-spoken revered investment guru who cosplays as middle class.
Every damn one of them should be paying 100% in taxes over a billion dollars, but they never will. Their greed is a more important consideration than whether or not you can get health care.
million
fine, I'll settle for 10 million
No, a flat amount will never work. Make it a multiple of some figure, like average wage. That way it actually changes with inflation and we don't have a situation where the the inflation adjusted minimum wage is 6 times the actual federal minimum wage.
Make it so that if poor people earn more, the rich pay less taxes... Or something, that might actually not function.
Okay, federal minimum wage * 1m
Ya, that seems reasonable.
I think it's a pretty core democratic value that no person is worth more than another. A compromise of 1 million times should satisfy individuals with even the most acute case of wealth hoarding.
Yeah, I'm willing to comprise for a realistic solution to the billionaire problem.
I'm fine letting people have 100m. It's really a drop in the bucket compared to the folks who have 1,000 times more than them. Definitely down to tax everything past that.
Agreed.
I mean to be fair I'd spend a dollar to stop people from asking me to buy some shitcoin.
But I also like, work, and pay taxes and shit.
Paying money to prevent spam is different than paying money to avoid helping people and doing your share in society.
Considering the above "protecting your wealth" instead of simply protecting yourself from hostile third parties is extremely disingenuous.
That is some seriously bootlicking, euphemistic nonsense right there.
I'm simply not equivocating protecting one's person and protecting one's assets, since it makes no sense to equivocate them.
It's seriously absurd to call that "bootlicking", and you're only calling it "euphemistic" because you failed to grasp what was a very simply-stated statement.
Sure, you are.
Smugness and delusion in equal proportion, it seems.