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Re:Millionaires call for an emergency tax on billionaires by david927 on Friday August 13, 2021 @11:59AM (#28170628)
We already "confiscate others' wealth." It's called taxation. There's nothing new or wrong with it.

> you’d find less people fed, less people sheltered and less education

Countries with higher and progressive tax rates have better success in all of these issues.

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Re:Millionaires call for an emergency tax on billionaires by ghostwriter on Friday August 13, 2021 @03:55PM (#28173769)
> We already "confiscate others' wealth." It's called taxation. There's nothing new or wrong with it.

what a "wonderful" principle, in the spirit of "people are already being raped, carry on, there's nothing wrong to see here"

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