“How can you defend a country where 1% of the people control 99 % of the wealth?
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“The more a person needs to be right, the less certain he is...”
“How can you defend a country where 1% of the people control 99% of the wealth?”
“Maybe you got a point about the machinery of capitalism being oiled with the blood of the workers.”
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Typical dumbshit post. But what do you expect from the source?
The thread title is not quite correct. The top 1% control about the same wealth as those with wealth in the 50%->90% range. And those with wealth between 90%->99% control most of the wealth. So the top 1% has about the same wealth as the middle class.
Wealth inequality has a way of snowballing and reinforcing itself. Liz Warren is toast, but her wealth tax was worth exploring. The basic idea was to leave fortunes under $50M untouched and begin taxing wealth over $50M at 2%. There's so much as a society that could be accomplished with that extra money. And at only 2%, there's probably enough incentive for the next Bezos or Gates or Musk. Might be difficult or impossible to collect the taxes in practice and a wealth tax might be unconstitutional. But note that the rest of continue to pay property taxes (which is just another form of a wealth tax).
Berkeley economists Saez and Zucman have written popular books on wealth inequality. That's where Warren got the idea in the first place.
Some are more successful than others and some are just lazy fools!
I assume you give almost all you earn, if you even work, to support those that don't wish to work. RIGHT???
There is a significant portion of the population that lives very nicely below that 1%. One doesn’t need to be a billionaire to enjoy the freedoms provided here. That is part of what makes this country great!
Defending the freedoms is the important thing - not the wealth. Having those freedoms must not get lost in your concern for others net worth.
I agree that wealth inequality, or rather, the lack of means among the lower classes, is a problem. But the problem with "tax the rich" is that the rich are mobile. See Trump "moving" to Florida. Or companies domiciling in low-tax Ireland. Complexity rewards those with the means to navigate it, the rich and well connected.
And something like 2% of wealth over $50M is not going squeeze the last breath out of capitalism.
So they add more taxes - and the wealthy hire better skilled tax attorneys - and more money gets squeezed out of the middle class.
The government establishment has failed the country. They won’t take a hard introspective look and make needed cuts. They just pile most pork on in the hope it will stick.
Dems and Repubs are both guilty in the swamp.
I'm an old school deficit hawk. I'm in favor of uncomplicating the system, eliminating deductions that give anyone--primarily the rich with their armies of lawyers and accountants--places to hide. And keeping the US dollar iron clad.
I for one love capitalism, I love working hard, earning a fat paycheck and then using it to bang some hot stripper like a fuck doll.