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Re:Why I Voted to Sell .ORG by IshKebab on Thursday November 28, 2019 @03:41PM (#21660054)
If everyone agrees that Jeff Bezos has too much money and that we should make an exception to normal property laws and strip him of his assets, that's exactly what would happen!

But most people don't think that. They wish they had as much money as him, maybe they think society is unfair to allow someone to have so much money. But you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who supports arbitrarily stripping someone of their (current) property.

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Re:Why I Voted to Sell .ORG by stjohnswarts on Thursday November 28, 2019 @07:10PM (#21661011)
I agree, even the current political elites aren't so daft as to say if 80% of the population is vehemently opposed to any US citizen having say more than 1 billion dollars in wealth, the Congress can surely enact taxes to insure that happens. Lucky for Bezos there is only a (large) minority that would like to see that happen so his Billions are currently safe.
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Re:Why I Voted to Sell .ORG by kortilla on Friday November 29, 2019 @10:04PM (#21668262)
> But you'd be hard pressed to find anyone who supports arbitrarily stripping someone of their (current) property.

Isn’t that what the Warren wealth tax is?

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