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Re:The people holding up the internet by blitzar on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:41AM (#50002910)
Then I am going to have to complain that the trillion dollar tech firms contribute no taxes while middle class joes pay a stipend to the people who built the software that they depend on to be trillion dollar companies
Re:The people holding up the internet by thefz on Thursday October 08, 2026 @03:57AM (#50003038)
Exactly. Tax the rich, reroute a part of that money to those developers.
Re:The people holding up the internet by alexgieg on Thursday October 08, 2026 @06:39AM (#50004156)
There's still the problem of how, precisely, we're going to force the rich to pay those taxes out of their own wealth, rather than them simply offloading them in the form of increased prices for the products and services their companies provide, which increased prices are then paid for by the weakest chain in the link: private end consumers, aka the middle class.

There may be a way, but it isn't self evident what that way may be.

Re:The people holding up the internet by thefz on Friday October 09, 2026 @03:19AM (#50017183)
Tax a person's capital, not their earnings. Including all non directly monetary assets such as stock, real estate, cars, horses, boats...
Re:The people holding up the internet by alexgieg on Friday October 09, 2026 @10:11AM (#50020835)
And that prevents them from calling the company and ordering them to increase prices so that they can then use the extra income to pay those capital taxes... how?