Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :jon-yell:
Group of 102 wealthy people realize that "tax" is the best verb that's gonna happen to them
:gui-better:
where to even start with this?
The proposed tax would see those with more than $5m pay 2%, rising to 3% for those with more than $50m and a 5% rate for dollar billionaires.
Don't go overboard! :liberty-weeping:
Patriotic Millionaires
our government cannot expect to be trusted if it would rather tax working people than wealthy people
tax the rich – tax us
shit like this makes me go full accelerationist, the last thing we need is faith in government (but it also doesn't require faith, only powerlessness)
also, money is real in the sense that governments use it to enforce capitalism, but it isn't real in the sense that you can just throw money at those types of problems. paying more nurses won't stop them getting covid.
proposed tax would see those with more than $5m pay 2%, rising to 3% for those with more than $50m and a 5% rate for dollar billionaires
Ah yes, the "I want to contribute, but not really" option. So generous
The proposed tax would see those with more than $5m pay 2%, rising to 3% for those with more than $50m and a 5% rate for dollar billionaires.
Deliberately intended to frame stratification of economic class in terms of income instead of relationship to the means of production.
The fact that the number itself is so low is bait for you to argue over long enough to avoid discussing anything that might lead to class consciousness.
absolutely, hence "where to even start". it's funny that they are useless even on their own terms though
Certain elements of the bourgeoisie recognize the state's function as providing cheaper education, training, and welfare for the proletariat than what they can privately provide
Other elements of the bourgeoisie actively despise their own workers and customer base and want nothing more than to destroy the very apparatus that secures their own power because they believe themselves to be deities
Easy PR to just say this while privately telling their representatives not to support it
Also I believe it's perfectly legal to voluntarily pay extra taxes and I doubt any of these people are actively doing that
Easy thing to say for clout when they know beforehand it’s never gonna happen
These fucks know they’re invincible. It’s fucking pouring salt on a wound.
It's one part genuine horror at the collapse of institutions and one part mea culpa that lets you go to the liberal cocktail party and announce "Well, I mailed in my Op-Ed to The Atlantic and that's all I can even do so its someone else's problem now."
But there is some tacit acknowledgement among some number of people that shit like the New Deal and Great Society weren't the results of Populist Revolutions. They were backstops against Revolutions. And now that those backstops are crumbling, the class conflicts Capital had successfully bottled up for the last century are threatening to flood the nation.
"Oligarchs run PR campaign by proposing tax increase they know will never pass"
We don't want some of your money. We want all of it.
Don't want to give it up? Reconsider. It never ends well.
Aww. Look at them trying to reduce the contradictions inherent in capitalism!
