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Re:Modeling a Wealth Tax by twblalock on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @06:53PM (#24205297)
> According to a Reuters poll from this beginning of this year a large majority of Democrats and a slim majority of Republicans support the idea of a wealth tax.

That's only because they haven't seen the specifics.

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Re:Modeling a Wealth Tax by OpieCunningham on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @09:14PM (#24206191)
That seems like an argument that could be made against literally every opinion poll. The “specifics” according to whom?
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Re:Modeling a Wealth Tax by tekknik on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @12:10AM (#24207070)
I once dug around to specifically find out how gallup accounts for population and they simply don’t show you. You just have to take their word on it. So until opinion polls give exact equations used and raw data so I can verify myself I completely ignore them.
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Re:Modeling a Wealth Tax by telotortium on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @05:38PM (#24216928)
Yes, that is a problem with every opinion poll about a hypothetical policy proposal. Those polls aren't super useful for gauging how popular a concrete piece of legislation would be in practice.
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