• @alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      02 years ago

      No more billionaires, but everyone can be a millionaire.

      The shortest path to equality is to greatly reduce taxes on the middle class and increase them on the wealthy.

      It puzzles me why leftist parties don’t all embrace lower taxes for the middle class.

      • grrgyle
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        02 years ago

        A lot of leftist view taxes as a good thing, when taken from those who can afford them

        • classic
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          02 years ago

          Taxes have never been the issue. How they are used is. But that gets obfuscated so that the 99% shoot ourselves in the foot

            • classic
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              02 years ago

              Yes. You (and I, and most of us) are experiencing the end result of the American people being played with a deceiving narrative. “No taxes” is a con game to get us to this type of situation

      • @SirDerpy@lemmy.world
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        02 years ago

        It puzzles me why leftist parties don’t all embrace lower taxes for the middle class.

        They all do. My best guess as to why you’d say this is that you’re including Democrats.

        At risk of a strawman…

        The shortest path to equality is to greatly reduce taxes on the middle class and increase them on the wealthy.

        That’s what’s best for equality and for economic growth. Does this mean Democrats are horribly incompetent? Perhaps it’s that equality and economic growth aren’t their goals.

        • @maccentric@sh.itjust.works
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          02 years ago

          Considering the strains currently on the environment, finding a way forward that doesn’t require continual growth is likely a necessity for our long term survival

          • @SirDerpy@lemmy.world
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            02 years ago

            But, muh’ capitalism!

            If it doesn’t work then we’ve killed all these socialists and communist for nothing.

            (Do I need a /s here? Is it obvious? Should be obvious.)

      • FlashMobOfOne
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        02 years ago

        It puzzles me why leftist parties don’t all embrace lower taxes for the middle class.

        Functionally, we don’t have one. The closest is the Green Party, but they’re so powerless that they may as well not exist.