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Re:Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressur... by sbsudbdjd on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @02:58PM (#41371419)
The US government burns money unproductively like California wild fire through a citrus field.

And there are better ways to deal with our oligarchs than braids dead proposals. Start breaking up their monopolies for one.

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Re:Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressur... by timeon on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @03:54PM (#41372216)
> there are better ways to deal with our oligarchs

Such as?

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Re:Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressur... by sbsudbdjd on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @09:33PM (#41375151)
For starters break up their companies. We did it for standard oil, we did it for AT&T.
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Re:Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressur... by amrocha on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @03:11AM (#41376821)
Even if you took away all of Elons company he’s still the richest person in the world.
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Re:Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressur... by yadaeno on Wednesday August 28, 2024 @10:35AM (#41379991)
The government will spend the money regardless. Does the money come from

1. inflation - a regressive tax that disproportionately takes from the poor

2. taxation as a % of wealth - takes from everyone equally

The fact is the rich pay a WAY lower tax rate, we can spend the next 1000 years playing legal cat and mouse over how to tax these people but it doesn’t get us closer to option 2 unless the government gets aggressive about collecting tax.

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