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Topic: how do we get conservative senators to tax the billionaires?

Anonymous A started this discussion 4 years ago #102,919

and corporations that have big profits but are raising prices on us?

there doesnt seem to be quite enough enthusiasm for it.

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 9 minutes later[^] [v] #1,162,388

Eat the rich.

Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 21 hours later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,162,555

tax them on what? their extravagance? easy-peasy, create a tax on luxury goods like yachts and whatnot

Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 57 minutes later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,162,560

Tell them wealth is making them become too woke and we need to eliminate wokeness by taxing the wealthy and redistributing it to the poor and elderly. It would completely own the libs.

boof joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,162,566

first you lock the tar get
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1cRGVaJF7Y

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 4 years ago, 2 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,162,576

@1,162,555 (C)
wealth tax would be more direct and to the point.

Anonymous C replied with this 4 years ago, 7 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,162,657

@previous (F)
what wealth? their unrealized gains in corporations they funded? bad idea, just tax luxury goods

Anonymous F replied with this 4 years ago, 16 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,162,664

@previous (C)
Horrible idea. The discrepancy between the amount of luxury goods billionaires purchase and the amount of control they can exert through corporate holdings is astronomical.

It is easy enough to tax assets; the market already sets the price and several countries have been doing this successfully for years. For wholly private companies, valuation can be more difficult but this is only a small fraction of companies and no solution needs to be perfect to surpass the current disaster of growing wealth inequality.

Anonymous F double-posted this 4 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,162,665

Also asset taxes are not a new thing. Property taxes have existed since the beginning of time. And those are far more difficult to assess than stock ownership.

boof replied with this 4 years ago, 5 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,162,667

heck, at this point we'd be lucky for the elected lackeys to merely stop actually giving them money

Anonymous C replied with this 4 years ago, 10 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,162,710

@1,162,664 (F)
Property tax amounts are actually based on something: the price of the last sale plus the price paid for any major additions. What will the government base the taxation of unrealized gains in corporate stock on?? I think you’ll find that your idea violates the United States constitution

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Anonymous F replied with this 4 years ago, 3 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,162,734

@previous (C)
Based on the market price of the stock. Can't tell if trolling or just dumb.

Anonymous C replied with this 4 years ago, 7 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,162,813

@previous (F)
Read the US Constitution. Thanks

Anonymous F replied with this 4 years ago, 14 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,162,818

@previous (C)
There's nothing that prohibits asset taxes. See: property taxes.
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