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Re:US is an oligarchy, not a democracy (2014) by 21 on Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:35PM (#18877827)
It's simple, you start at the top, by imposing a 70% tax on the higher brackets as Cortez wants. If the marginalized group would get too wealthy (straw-man argument), the 70% tax would still do it's job.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/08/alexan...

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Re:US is an oligarchy, not a democracy (2014) by f00_ on Thursday January 10, 2019 @04:43PM (#18878538)
I'm not saying higher taxes aren't something I want, but it's impossible to get by the heavily lobbied government
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Re:US is an oligarchy, not a democracy (2014) by acali on Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:41PM (#18877891)
So remove the incentive to earn above a certain threshold?
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Re:US is an oligarchy, not a democracy (2014) by 21 on Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:45PM (#18877956)
If taking home 300 mil on a 1 bil income is not incentive to you...
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Re:US is an oligarchy, not a democracy (2014) by acali on Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:55PM (#18878051)
Who earns $1B as income? I seriously don't think that is a thing. The big earning usually happens when companies or stock gets sold. And yes, it would hurt incentive and takes away funding from capital investment.
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