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Re:Millionaires call for an emergency tax on billionaires by andreilys on Friday August 13, 2021 @12:02PM (#28170675)
We do that today through regulation. There are reasons we collectively want some level of control over how companies are run.

Regulations are different from a Washington bureaucrat far removed from your company having to approve your new fiscal year roadmap or plans to pivot the company

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Re:Millionaires call for an emergency tax on billionaires by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday August 13, 2021 @12:05PM (#28170706)
Why would that be significantly different than anyone else with a voting share? It's not like the government is incapable of hiring the kinds of people who sit on boards of directors.
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