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Re:Hiring for Basic Income by petra on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @04:26PM (#13709303)
So so for the sake of political simplicity ,why not just say to the bottom 80% -"let's greatly raise taxes for the rich, and than let's discuss about how to use it to help society "? Sounds like a great political promise.

Or maybe there's a problem ?

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Re:Hiring for Basic Income by dragonwriter on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @04:52PM (#13709529)
The problem is that if you say that, "the rich", who control more economic power than the bottom 80%, will expend considerable resources to discredit your ideas and you personally, and you won't get elected.

We have a democratic republic in theory, but very much a plutocratic one in practice.

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Re:Hiring for Basic Income by morgante on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @04:33PM (#13709358)
Yet the candidate who basically ran on that platform didn't even make it past the primary while someone doing the opposite is now president.

Politics isn't rational.

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