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DanieRains

(4,619 posts) Wed Feb 3, 2021, 01:27 PM Feb 2021

Why Is Taxing Wealth Accumulators Like Workers Never Discussed? [View all]

Elizabeth and Bernie have mentioned it a couple times, but it is like taboo.

Total silence, when we just added $8 trillion to the debt in 4 years, and more coming.

The 1% are still raking it in.

Wake the f up folks.

Why the silence?

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Why Is Taxing Wealth Accumulators Like Workers Never Discussed? [View all] DanieRains Feb 2021 OP

Maybe there is a constitutional issue with taxing assets? Walleye Feb 2021 #1

It is use for local safeinOhio Feb 2021 #12

States don't seem to have a problem doing it Leith Feb 2021 #13

There was a thread BootinUp Feb 2021 #2

I Was Too Busy Working My Fingers To The Bone To Pay All Them Taxes So Bezos And His Friends DanieRains Feb 2021 #4

+100000000000000000000000000000000 x infinity AmyStrange Feb 2021 #3

Probably because the wealthy have more say about who gets elected into office. jalan48 Feb 2021 #5

And Control Almost All Of The Media - See Re-Distribution DanieRains Feb 2021 #7

Yep, keep the focus off of income inequality and make it about other "Breaking News". jalan48 Feb 2021 #8

I Was Many Years Behind Just Paid $25,000 In Property Tax For One Building DanieRains Feb 2021 #6

Because the rich own politicians inwiththenew Feb 2021 #9

I am having a discussion with someone who says they are wealthy. Dyedinthewoolliberal Feb 2021 #10

Maybe They Could Try Working DanieRains Feb 2021 #11

Do they have a cellphone? What about a refrigerator? aidbo Feb 2021 #14

Maybe they could try skipping that double latte every once in a while. aidbo Feb 2021 #15

I am trying to figure out the best way to express Dyedinthewoolliberal Feb 2021 #18

there is not an unreasonable argument that a wealth tax is unconstitutional dsc Feb 2021 #16

Because the wealth accumulators use their accumulated wealth to make it so. Caliman73 Feb 2021 #17

it's always about the criminal not the crime. See Bernie Madoff RANDYWILDMAN Feb 2021 #19

I discuss it all the time. Iggo Feb 2021 #20