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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2-percent-wealth-tax
Seven Nobel laureates are calling for a 2% wealth tax on the ultrarich.
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But WHY do That when you can ELIMINATE MY HEALTHCARE INSTEAD? After all Billionaires NEED the Newest Private Jet but I DONT NEED HEALTHCARE!
It needs to be prohibitive to amass the kind of wealth these people are stealing from our pockets. They are making record profits and historical wealth off of decades of suppressed wages and they want us fighting each other instead of them about it. Fuck the system, fight the power.
American tax rates need to go 70 years into the past and stay that way until billionaires stop existing.
and 2% wealth tax still leaves them over 10% less than most of us would pay in taxes, that’s another trillion+ on the table just to make things fair again.
To quote Bill and Ted “execute them”.
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
But then that money might get wasted on luxuries like healthcare or education instead of being spent on important things like super yachts or vanity trips to space.