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Re:What If Andrew Yang Was Right? by claudeganon on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @07:49AM (#22603942)
This presumes that societies are run and tax so as to provide equal benefits to all. This is disproven by, I dunno, the history of every society.
Re:What If Andrew Yang Was Right? by manigandham on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @11:07AM (#22605545)
Taxes are not equally paid either. I'm not sure what your point is. Do you want to limit wealth? Do you want to ban entrepreneurship? Do you want communism?
Re:What If Andrew Yang Was Right? by claudeganon on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @12:31PM (#22606663)
You’re right. Workers now pay a higher tax rate than Capital owners:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/10/16/us-now-ta...

What I want is for the value workers create to be returned to them, not hoovered up by the wealthy in some distortive, unjustifiable scheme that prizes Capital ownership over everything else, including the lives and well-being of the majority of citizens.

Re:What If Andrew Yang Was Right? by manigandham on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @01:12PM (#22607242)
Sure, I agree with removing capital gains taxes. Remove corporate income tax too. That would eliminate a lot of the discrepancy and tax loopholes.

But tax rates are meaningless otherwise. The top 1% pay as much as the bottom 90% combined, and the bottom 40% pay nothing at all.

Re:What If Andrew Yang Was Right? by 93po on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @02:49PM (#22619952)
>Do you want communism?

Yes

>Do you want to limit wealth?

Absolutely

Re:What If Andrew Yang Was Right? by manigandham on Friday March 20, 2020 @01:15PM (#22639323)
No thanks. No need for an ideology that has killed hundreds of millions while keeping the ones the survived in poverty.

Any wealth inequality that exists in capitalism is only magnified in communism where an even smaller group of people have both political and monetary power.