Posted on 01/19/2019 11:39:38 AM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
Ultimately, finding an optimal tax rate for the super-rich is a moral and political issue as much as an economic one.
Last week, when 60 Minutes aired an interview with newly sworn-in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the freshman New York congressperson caused an uproar with what, by Washington standards, seemed a rather immodest proposal. Asked whether an expansion of public investment in green technologies would require raising taxes, she cited history.
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Of course, there are people who don't fall into the debt trap. You can argue that "it's their fault" for those who do, and in many cases it is. But that doesn't solve the problem that we now have a few generations who've never been held accountable for their decisions.
No argument about that. People and groups such as unions were given advantages to buy their votes. As soon as the gov started making it acceptable to not be self-sufficient, there was less of an outcry about the ever-expanding control all governments have over our lives.
Maybe it's an inevitable cycle. Governments get too large and countries too powerful and they fail. When they do so, pockets of civilization will do well with strong local traits, others won't. One can't help but suspect the US is beyond saving. That's why states rights and maintaining the integrity of the US population should've been priorities. With that, more localities will have a chance of survival when it all comes tumbling down.
They'll be starting where you live.
The Ultra-Rich are predominately Marxists today you morons!
Go for it.
Not all of them were executed. Many died in famines. Caused by the government and the party to be sure, but “executed” isn’t quite right.
You go girl!
Keep talking/tweeting.
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