• Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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    3 days ago

    Oh, 100%! I’m just saying that people can’t say “the wonders of taxing the rich” like that, because that brought in 1/24th of the needed money. The true wonder was the money the state gave them (7 bil, IIRC).

    But I’m truly hopeful he won’t stop here and will work on actually taxing the rich properly.

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      3 days ago

      yeah. but I meant to say it does show the wonders of taxing the rich, even if this is not particularly. if this tiny amount of tax alone closed like 5% of this insane deficit, that’s still proof that actually taxing them what they deserve will do wonders.

      • WhoIsTheDrizzle@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        I agree with both of you and I’ll add that the negative publicity of rich folk gnashing their teeth about something as out of touch to working Americans as taxing a 5m+ second home is a good first step on popularizing and eventually executing the rest of his tax plan.