DSA surprisingly hesitant to stick it to millionaires when they're the millionaires
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I just can't get over the line where they're furious about the very idea of property taxes and say "corporations and capitalists" should be paying them instead--what do you think your property is, if not capital?
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"No John...you ARE the capitalists" And then John was a Republican.
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Which they would be entirely ok with if *they* weren't the ones footing the bill (see the line about who "ought" to pay taxes at end of 2nd par)
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Misallocation of funds intended for one particular project is huge problem with trying to pay for things through taxes and gov budgets, period--I've seen cities raise tax money for transit only to have the gov redirect the money into a property tax break.
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They are hypocrites because they're the DSA, I wouldn't be calling them hypocrites if they were libertarians or republicans
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They're the children of millionaire homeowners.
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didn't save the younger generation of Romanovs
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omg I'm crying
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They’ve apparently forgotten (as have you) that this was the argument used by right wing Howard Jarvis to pass Prop. 13 which has hobbled CA public fisc since 70s
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I don't live in Cali and know very little about the details of their laws--why a local DSA chapter doesn't know them is another story, and that the same chapter is up in arms about paying taxes for socialist programs is just funny
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The chapter is not up in arms about this. The chapter overruled the endorsements subcommittee, called out the bad analysis, and voted to endorse this measure.
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They're only millionaires if they sell their homes. Why should they be taxed to fund leftists utopian schemes that will only waste the money anyway?
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And I'm only a millionaire if I sell all my millions of dollars worth of gold bullion. Just because your wealth is tied up in an asset doesn't mean you don't have wealth.
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Moreover, taxing wealth is generally more just than taxing income. After all, it's the amassing of massive wealth that is destabilizing to capitalism, not necessarily massive income in and of itself.
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