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minus-squarecapital_sniff@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down7·1 day agoWe get banned for talking about increasing taxes on the wealthy through like progressive tax policy?
minus-squareTheShadow277@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·1 day agoAsking the rich to be less rich doesn’t seem to be working so well to me.
minus-squareblakenong@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·24 hours agoSweet summer child, that won’t happen. It’s far more likely that we just kill them all before those things get voted in.
minus-squareSoftestSapphic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·1 day agoSo how do we increase taxes on them when they control all our politicians?
minus-squareSabinStargem@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·18 hours agoNo politicians, no problem. …I can’t use a /s for this. Because, honestly, we might have a shooting war within a decade. I think most of our politicians don’t understand why the social contract was a thing.
We get banned for talking about increasing taxes on the wealthy through like progressive tax policy?
Asking the rich to be less rich doesn’t seem to be working so well to me.
Sweet summer child, that won’t happen. It’s far more likely that we just kill them all before those things get voted in.
So how do we increase taxes on them when they control all our politicians?
No politicians, no problem.
…I can’t use a /s for this. Because, honestly, we might have a shooting war within a decade. I think most of our politicians don’t understand why the social contract was a thing.