Isn’t that what taxation pretty much does? Takes money and redistributes it?
Not in the US at the federal level. Taxes are an anti inflationary device when dealing with a sovereign currency. It’s the last step of the fiscal year. Step one is literally printing money, step two is distribution of those funds, step three is to allow the money to circulate between businesses and people, and then step four at the end of the year is to levy taxes to combat inflation. They used to literally burn the dollars they collected, now they just zero out an entry in a ledger.
I suppose OP is proposing a wealth tax.
I think it’s more about Socialism than taxation.
Stop letting them borrow against it.
No, no, no. Just like a tax on unrealized gains is a bad idea because of how much it would royally fuck up the stock market, including every 401(k). What they need to do instead is tax the ways used by the extremely wealthy to utilize their gains without technically realizing them, even if that sometimes means taxing debt (aka treating it as income when they borrow against it and taxing accordingly).
Come on man you can’t even spell divide
I came here to lead, not to read!
It’s gold, not lead
Devide
verb
Obsolete form of divide.
Apparently, yes.
*Divide
But their nephew’s painting on the wall is worth a million bucks.
It’s not “their” money. It’s our communal wealth, stolen and privatised
It’s 100% their money. They control its rules, and it’s designed to make them rich at our expense. Their money is part of how they steal our wealth.
First you need to stop money from systematically flowing to the top or that dividing is only going to be a temporary measure.
How tho?
I’d argue there should be a flat out cap on wealth. Nobody should have 500 billion dollars. Not sure what it should be, but somewhere under 500 billion.
Would be nice, would still require a revolution.
Acceptable
You can have a soft cap with higher taxes as wealth goes up.
To name a few:
- the classic riot, violence and/or revolution
- the coup
- organizing through unions and have general strikes until things change
- sustained peaceful protest
- voting
- switching to a different (underground) economic system
- massive emigration
All come with some serious downsides of course.
or to sum it up: socialism
Tax wealth.
Would require either revolution or threat of it to pass to a meaninful degree.
No. Leave my IRA and 401k alone.
There is a reason every country that’s tried a wealth tax has abandoned it (or neutered it to the point that it’s primarily the burden of the middle class, completely defeating the ostensibly-stated purpose of getting more money from the wealthiest), learn some world history.
The reason countries abandon wealth taxation is because the ruling class, the bourgeoisie, doesn’t like it, and the justification is that it hurts the working class, the proletariat, even if that isn’t true.
Turns out that technically they don’t have wealth, just a lot of loans with paper assets as collateral.
With votes, sadly.
If voting could dethrone the wealthy, they wouldn’t let us do it.
The rich will just come up with clever ways to get paid that avoids paying tax.
Land value taxes are immune to tax evasion. It’s assessed by the state instead of declared by the taxpayer.
People here use farm land to pay less tax, ie for inheritance.
What’s funny is that we don’t even need their money to pay for anything. We need to seize their means of production and dethrone them from their control of the state.
Yes, the same people who couldn’t get past the DNC to get Bernie nominated are certainly going to ge able to redistribute all the wealth.
Yes, but I’ll do the dividing. Just trust me on this one
Yeah I’ll evenly spread out Elon Musk’s $200 billion.
You’re still winning the name game, btw. I honestly don’t think anyone’s gonna pass it
Isn’t that the definition of taxation and redistribution of wealth?
Yes but if we can’t spell divide I’m not sure I’d hold out hope for nuanced or accurate political commentary.
What have we got to loose?
We half nothing too loose but our chain’s.
*are
I had multiple involuntary physical reactions to that sentence.
You win.
No need to shame people for their spelling. You never know, the person in question might not be a native english speaker or could have dislexia.
How about capping the amount they can earn above their lowest paid employee? For them to rise they have to take everyone with them
They’d just ‘devide’ up their businesses into a chain of symbiotic entities defined by paygrade. Then the executive level can enrich itself insulated from us front line grunts.
Or to be realistic, maximum ten times more.
Let people dream a bit!
Devide
