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Re:America's 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90% by tengbretson on Thursday February 11, 2021 @11:39AM (#26103654)
What does that have to do with taxing the wealthy though? Do you think the $3.5 trillion spent on covid relief has any relationship whatsoever with tax revenue?
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Re:America's 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90% by tick_tock_tick on Thursday February 11, 2021 @03:59PM (#26107073)
Total billionaire net-worth in the USA is $4 trillion so 1 covid relief would fully tap them out. People are horrible at reasoning about large numbers they think these people have real money compared to the government.
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Re:America's 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90% by staticman2 on Thursday February 11, 2021 @04:21PM (#26107411)
Politicians are cheap to bribe with campaign contributions and political adds and that money is enough to ensure the government will do a poor job of serving the people.
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