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can we be all rich together? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (3 children)

No more billionaires, but everyone can be a millionaire.

The shortest path to equality is to greatly reduce taxes on the middle class and increase them on the wealthy.

It puzzles me why leftist parties don't all embrace lower taxes for the middle class.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

It puzzles me why leftist parties don't all embrace lower taxes for the middle class.

They all do. My best guess as to why you'd say this is that you're including Democrats.

edit: Or, I could be a self-centered American that didn't consider others. I'll do better.

At risk of a strawman...

The shortest path to equality is to greatly reduce taxes on the middle class and increase them on the wealthy.

That's what's best for equality and for economic growth. Does this mean Democrats are horribly incompetent? Perhaps it's that equality and economic growth aren't their goals.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's also possible they're not from the US. There are dozens of us. Dozens!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Fuck. I'm being a self-centered American, again. I'll do better in the future. Thanks for the help.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Considering the strains currently on the environment, finding a way forward that doesn’t require continual growth is likely a necessity for our long term survival (possibly short term too)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

But, muh' capitalism!

If it doesn't work then we've killed all these socialists and communist for nothing.

(Do I need a /s here? Is it obvious? Should be obvious.)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

It puzzles me why leftist parties don't all embrace lower taxes for the middle class.

Functionally, we don't have one. The closest is the Green Party, but they're so powerless that they may as well not exist.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A lot of leftist view taxes as a good thing, when taken from those who can afford them

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Taxes have never been the issue. How they are used is. But that gets obfuscated so that the 99% shoot ourselves in the foot

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Taxes are DEFINITELY an issue when I pay more taxes than many billion dollar corporations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yes. You (and I, and most of us) are experiencing the end result of the American people being played with a deceiving narrative. "No taxes" is a con game to get us to this type of situation