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minus-squarecapital_sniff@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down7·2 days agoWe get banned for talking about increasing taxes on the wealthy through like progressive tax policy?
minus-squareTheShadow277@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·2 days agoAsking the rich to be less rich doesn’t seem to be working so well to me.
minus-squareSoftestSapphic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·2 days agoSo how do we increase taxes on them when they control all our politicians?
minus-squareSabinStargem@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day 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.
minus-squareblakenong@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 day agoSweet summer child, that won’t happen. It’s far more likely that we just kill them all before those things get voted in.
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.
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.
Sweet summer child, that won’t happen. It’s far more likely that we just kill them all before those things get voted in.