• deaf_fish@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I have a great idea! Let’s not tax the rich until we improve our democracy. And let’s not improve the democracy until we can get the rich taxed.

    Even better, let’s do nothing unless we can get all of the things working at once at the same time! Incremental changes are for fools!

    /sarcasm

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      1 year ago

      Taxing the rich does nothing until you can fix the government. Fix the government first, and you can fix the rest. The government is the rich, they aren’t going to do anything that would impact themselves. Some of them talk a good game, but if push comes to shove, they aren’t going to raise taxes on themselves.

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        1 year ago

        “Fix the government”? The government already knows how to spend money. They spend hundreds of billions of dollars every year on things that benefit everyday Americans. Okay, so there’s corruption. There’s corruption in literally every government on Earth. The answer is to start taxing the rich more.

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        1 year ago

        Taxing the rich does nothing until you can fix the government.

        If only we had some way to find the funds we need to overhaul the government… oh well. Guess we’ll just die or something.

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          1 year ago

          So we can tax the rich for the money right? And where does that money go? Oh ya, to the government, who does whatever they want with it, making themselves, their friends, and donors, richer. That’ll definitely help us /s

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            1 year ago

            You’re just kind of making yourself look silly here. You know there’s an annual budget thing that happens every year right? POTUS doesn’t just get to sit on trillions of dollars la la la.