• Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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    23 hours ago

    bezos takes a smallish salary, I don’t care about that myth, or them, or unrealized gains. we need to rebalance the tax system

    I agree, but you can’t “not care” about these things unless you want to bankrupt the working class.

    your response is the “oh it is hopeless so don’t consider it” crap brought up on reddit every time this subject comes up.

    I didn’t say “it’s hopeless”, I said it’s extremely difficult to do that without fucking over regular people.

    And if it’s something that’s “brought up every time this subject comes up”, then you’d think there’s some merit to it, no?

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      16 hours ago

      even if you consider moving the goal posts to include capital gains, most working class, earning far below the mean, as median income in the us lags the mean significantly, most investments are tax deferred accounts covered under legislation already.

      you’ve moved the goalposts to “taxing unrealized gains” by billionaires to evade the essential truth that tax margins are out of whack.

      then you only continue to “discuss” that far off goalpost. you are a troll.

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        13 hours ago

        even if you consider moving the goal posts to include capital gains

        How is including capital gains “moving goal posts”? What are you talking about?

        you’ve moved the goalposts to “taxing unrealized gains” by billionaires to evade the essential truth that tax margins are out of whack.

        WTF? I didn’t, the other guy did! Did you accidentally reply to the wrong comment? I’m so confused…

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      17 hours ago

      your statement doesn’t follow from mine. bankrupt.the working class? they would be in the proposed tax margin.

      you are just gibbering because taxes.

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        13 hours ago

        If you tried reading what I wrote, you’d see where it follows from your comment.

        You’re just parroting the age old “tax the rich” without a second thought to the pitfalls and risks there.