• OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    8 days ago

    Yeah, that’s right. You got us.

    We’re gonna put a wealth tax on your toothbrush.

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      7 days ago

      When I was a kid, they taught us in school that we were presumed innocent. When I grew to adulthood, they required us to go through security and cops to access courthouses and airports. That is not presumption of innocence. They are dedicated liars.

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          7 days ago

          I don’t know Sanders, other than what I read in the news. Governmental authorities are to whom I refer. I suppose Sanders is a cog in a gear of that machinery. Consider the US as a whole. It started out as an anti-corporate nation. During the 1800s there were several court decisions which empowered corporations. Now it’s a corporatocracy. These are the kinds of lies to which I refer. Given a sufficiently long time period, a wealth tax will be used against the poor and the rich will laugh about it. It may have value in the short term to do what is claimed.

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            7 days ago

            The US was never “an anti-corporate nation.” The founders were very keen on protecting the wealth of the elites, it’s why they wanted to prevent “mob rule.” The 1800s was when anti- corporate movements began to form.

            Your perspective is nihilistic and defeatist. Just because one country historically “failed” to design a government that puts people over profits (something that was never the intent to start with) it means we should just throw in the towel and stop trying?

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                7 days ago

                My dad’s self-publishing a book and formed a one person corporation as part of that. By your logic, if you take away corporate rights, then soon enough you’ll be coming after small authors like that. It’s inevitable. Just a law of the universe.

                Or, you know, it isn’t, that’s bullshit, and the same is true for a wealth tax.